Aids and home adaptation

from 180 min

3,500 kr

Advice on assistive devices and adapting your home, so you can live safely at home.

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About the treatment

At a glance

Duration
3 hrs
Pain level
The assessment does not hurt
Downtime
No downtime

Benefits

  • A safer home
  • Practical advice and a plan
  • Assistive devices that suit you
  • Help with applications

Expected results

You get a plan for measures and assistive devices that can make your home safer and your daily life easier.

Overview & Procedure

What the treatment is and how it's performed

What it is

In assistive devices and home adaptation, the practitioner goes through your home with you. The goal is that you can live safely and manage on your own. This can mean removing thresholds and rugs, fitting grab rails, improving the lighting, adapting the bathroom and kitchen or choosing the right assistive devices. You get practical advice and a plan for the measures.

  1. You talk about your daily life and what is difficult at home.
  2. The practitioner goes through your home with you.
  3. The practitioner suggests measures and assistive devices, and shows how to use them.
  4. You get a written plan and help with applications when relevant.

The visit takes about three hours.

Experience & Recovery

Pain level, downtime and healing

  • You get a written summary with advice and a plan.
  • You can take the summary to your GP or your municipality.

The assessment does not hurt.

No downtime.

Expectations & Safety

Who it's for and safety information

  • Assistive devices for a lasting need, one that lasts more than two years, can be borrowed from the NAV Assistive Technology Centre. The application usually goes through your municipality. Short-term needs are often covered by the municipality.
  • Your municipality can give advice, loans or grants for adapting your home, among others through the Norwegian State Housing Bank.

  • Anyone who wants to live safely at home for as long as possible.
  • Anyone who has fallen, or is afraid of falling.
  • Anyone going home after a hospital stay or surgery.

  • An acute illness or injury that needs a doctor. Contact your GP or the out-of-hours service first.
  • Anyone who needs help the same day. The out-of-hours service on 116 117 is then the right place.

Call 113 if you get sudden paralysis, a drooping face, difficulty speaking, chest pain or difficulty breathing. Contact your GP or the out-of-hours service on 116 117 if your function gets quickly worse.

A new review can be done when your health or daily life changes.