Occupational Therapy is about supporting people with a wide range of conditions to manage daily activities and live independently; most commonly those who have difficulties due to a long-term physical health condition, mental health illness, or learning disability. Occupational therapists look at how activities which the person needs or wants to do can be modified or adapted to make them easier and how the physical and social environment can be altered so that restrictions are reduced.

Under the Care Act 2014 any care and support provided by the local authority aims to help people achieve outcomes that matter in their own lives.  For Occupational Therapy Services, this means supporting people by promoting health and wellbeing through daily activities.

Below are examples of daily activities that people may have difficulty with:

• Getting in and out of the bath or shower
• Being able to access the community