Equipment Awareness - Mobility

Course Aims

• To enable learners to use a structured assessment process to identify appropriate equipment to support clients with mobility difficulties
• To raise awareness of a range of mobility equipment
• To enable learners to identify risk factors in use of equipment

Learner Outcomes

• Consider a range of mobility equipment (walking sticks, frames, wheeled walkers etc)
• Explore the assessment process, including suitability of equipment for the individual, suitability for the task, environmental factors and technical specifications
• Consider how to identify and manage Risk Factors in use of equipment and reflect on the possible impacts of interventions

Course Content

• Why use a walking aid?
• General considerations
• Gait (walking patterns)
• Sticks
• Crutches
• Walking Frames
• Wheeled Walkers