Extension services and mobile units

COMMUNITY BASED REHABILITATION

1. Extension services and mobile
units
Extension services and mobile units
- HETA PATEL (R2)

2. Objectives
•To learn what is extension services and mobile
units
•Needs of extension services and mobile units
•Physiotherapy and mobile units

3. Barriers of health care services
•Inaccesible / unavailable health care services
•Lack of financial support
•Lack of transport
•Healthcare not a priority
•Lack of service co ordination
•Language barriers
•Chronic homelessness
•Unaware about the services at all

4. How mobile units can be helpful?

5. •Helps to provide services to the one who are
unable to come to the clinic
•Comfortable for the patients to have services at
their doorstep
•Helping to the elderly
•Promotes community based rehabilitation

6. Partial requirement
•The patient that has just had surgery and needs
or desires an early start on the rehab
process before they are safe to get in and out of
the house
•Patient needs evaluation for their home place for
review of environment or fall prevention
•The patient is a care taker of a child or any other
family member

7. Types of mobile units
•Recreational vehicle
•Truck
•Passenger van
•Bus
•Custom designed

8. Marketing of services
•Mouth to mouth publicity
•Pamphlets, advertisements, posters,
signs
•appearance/visibility of mobile unit
•media: radio, TV
•newsletter
•brochure
•marketing department

9. Obstacles in the programme
•Lack of financial capacity
•Vehicle/ equipment problem
•Clinical information management
•Staffing issues
•Insufficient space
•Patient follow up problem
•Parking issues
•Community access problems

10. Strategies to overcome obstacles
•Multi-tasking/cross-training staff, corporate
sponsorship, collaboration with community
partners
•Maintenance/repair schedule,
•Laptop, tablets
•Regular staff meetings, training, burnout
prevention
•Purchasing larger mobile unit
•cell phones to coordinate follow-up
appointments

12. Which all physiotherapy services can
be provided?
•Electrotherapy
•Suspension therapy
•Manual therapy