The Manual Handling Revolution: How health professionals can achieve creative solutions for people with disabilities and their caregivers - Softcover

Gallagher, Aideen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1925648265 ISBN 13: 9781925648263

Publisher: Risk Managed Australia Pty Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

Are you a health professional who wants to feel confident about the manual handling solutions you
offer people with disabilities and their caregivers?
At long last there is a book that provides a framework for health professionals for solving complex manual handling problems. The Manual Handling Revolution offers simple yet powerful insights into how we think about manual handling, and guides you through a process for changing that thinking to achieve creative solutions for people with disabilities and their caregivers.

In this book you will discover:

- how to objectively evaluate equipment options to find the best solution to a problem

- how to get the best out of equipment solutions you already use to eliminate manual handling

- how to achieve a win-win outcome for the person with disabilities and their caregivers

- a method for you to feel confident as a professional in the solutions you recommend

- a systematic framework for understanding the manual handling assessment process.

If you aspire to excellence in manual handling and want to make a positive impact on the lives of people with disabilities and their caregivers, this book is for you.

About this title

About the Author

Aideen Gallagher is an expert in the moving and handling of people with disabilities. She is passionate about the physical and mental well-being of people with disabilities and the caregivers who support them. She has developed a number of training programmes that are changing the way health professionals think about solving manual handling problems.

Edition details

• Publisher: Risk Managed Australia Pty Ltd
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1925648265
• ISBN 13: 9781925648263
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210