Adult Community Rehabilitation Team (ACRT)
- Help people make choices about their disability and adjust to the impact on their lives
- Help clients to manage their health conditions and maximise their independence
- Help people access community services such as leisure centres and voluntary organisations
- Prevent unnecessary admissions to hospital
- Provide specialist intervention for progressive neurological conditions such as MS, MND, Parkinson’s' Disease, acquired brain injury, including stroke
- Help clients to improve their function following hospital admission
- Offer a range of other groups to suit patient needs
Eligibility
Inclusion
- Presents with a progressive or non-progressive neurological or physical condition, including patients with a palliative diagnosis
- Requires a non-intensive, uni/multi-disciplinary approach to rehabilitation (i.e. no more than one home visit per week)
- Has a progressive neurological condition
- Has therapy goals that are community-based or can be addressed as a neuro outpatient—completion of goals are not time-bound
- Requires intervention in any location e.g. home (including residential and nursing home), local community, place of work or study
- Requires specific one-off assessment e.g. swallowing assessment, walking aid assessment
Exclusion
- Patients who are currently hospital inpatients (refer to ACRT on or after date of discharge)
- Patients who do not require rehabilitation/have no goals
- Referrals for equipment only