Home modification issues Issues such as inadequate space and living with a relative are challenges faced by occupational therapists when providing advice on home modification.
“Sometimes we from OTand PTside advise a patient ‘ok, better to get a hospital bed’; but a patient instead says, ‘I can get it, but in my house I don’t have space for that bed.”
[Occupational Therapist (aged 39 years); 6 years’ experience]
Sometimes the house design itself is hazardous.
“I cannot remove that curb, you know village houses, right? The curb was built at the entrance of a house. If you remove that, then the rain water will enter the house.”