Occupational therapy in Rye, by home visit. Falls prevention, equipment, modifications and daily living support for Home Care Package recipients and NDIS participants.
Rye's population roughly triples in January and shrinks back again by March. That seasonal swing is not just a traffic problem — it shapes what services exist here and when.
Permanent residents are the people who get squeezed. Services that are busy in summer are thin in winter, and a good number of allied health providers simply don't come this far down the Peninsula at all.
We visit Rye year-round on the southern Peninsula run. Winter is usually easier to schedule than summer, for the obvious reason.
Housing is a mix of original holiday shacks now lived in permanently, and newer permanent homes. The older stock produces most of the modification work: compact bathrooms, step-down showers, and back doors with a step and no rail.
Roughly even between Home Care Package and NDIS work, with the package side growing.
Common requests: falls prevention and home safety, bathroom equipment and rails, transfers, minor modifications, daily living strategies, and functional capacity assessments for NDIS plan reviews.
Both funding routes are common here. The assessment is funded as a clinical support; equipment and modifications come through the Assistive Technology and Home Modifications scheme. We work with self-managed and plan-managed participants. We are not able to take NDIA-managed plans.
Peninsula Pathways is a sole-practitioner practice. Louise is an AHPRA-registered occupational therapist, Peninsula-born and based, working across the NDIS and aged care systems.
Rye is on the southern Peninsula run. Winter appointments are generally quicker to get than summer ones, for reasons anyone who has driven Point Nepean Road in January will understand.
Year-round. Winter is usually the easier time to book, and it's when permanent residents most need services that are still running.
Not for us — there is no clinic to attend. Assessments happen in your home. That's precisely why home-visiting OT is more useful down this end of the Peninsula than up the top.
We'll be honest about that at the first call rather than promising weekly and delivering fortnightly. Travel distance is a real constraint on frequency and it's better to plan around it.
Yes, Australia-wide. Telehealth suits review sessions, coaching and planning work. Anything that depends on seeing the space — home modifications, falls risk, equipment fit — needs a home visit.
No. NDIS participants need occupational therapy funding in their plan; Home Care Package recipients can have it arranged by their case manager or contact us directly. Neither route requires a GP referral.
Make a referral using the online form, ask a question, or just say hello. We reply within two business days.