Seating for Care Homes
This webinar introduces how seating can be used to help manage pressure, as well as functional needs of your residents. We explore the benefits of good seating and potential consequences of not providing adequate seating. There's an overview of what posture is and how it is linked to pressure management. We also discuss the potential barriers and possible solutions to the provision of seating in care homes
Learning Outcomes
- Have a better understanding of benefits of good seating for residents
- Have a better understanding of how posture and seating is linked to pressure
- Improve awareness of products available to support posture in sitting and how this impacts pressure management
- Be aware of options for provision of seating in care homes
Meet our Experts
Jenny is a senior occupational therapist. She qualified in 1997 and completed her MSc in Neuro-rehabilitation in 2007. She has worked in Neurological Rehabilitation at the Battle Hospital in Reading, and the Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre in Oxford which became part of the Oxford Centre for Enablement in 2000. She moved into the Specialist Disability Service at the OCE from where she joined the Oxford MND Centre in January 2007.
Since August 2009 Jenny has been funded full-time by the Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association to develop NHS wheelchair services across the UK, to improve wheelchair provision for people living with MND.
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