Occupational therapy in Sorrento, by home visit. Access, falls prevention and equipment, including for heritage limestone homes where modification options are constrained.
Sorrento is affluent and older, with a high proportion of self-funded and self-managed clients. People here often have more choice about who they engage and less dependence on what a funding body will approve.
The complication in Sorrento is the housing. Heritage limestone homes are beautiful and genuinely difficult to modify. Solid walls, heritage overlays, uneven original floors, narrow doorways and steps that cannot simply be removed. A recommendation that would be routine in a 1990s brick veneer may be impossible here, or may need a heritage approval that adds months.
That is worth knowing before an assessment rather than after. Where the building won't allow a modification, the answer is usually equipment, layout and technique instead — and there is more available on that front than most people expect.
Sorrento is visited on the southern run alongside Blairgowrie, Rye and Portsea.
Falls prevention, access and equipment, with an unusual number of assessments that have to work around what the building will permit.
Common requests: home safety and falls reviews, entry and internal step access, bathroom equipment where modification is constrained, transfers, and daily living strategies.
Sorrento has a high rate of Home Care Packages that are privately topped up, and of people paying for assessments directly because it is faster than waiting for approval.
Where you would rather arrange it privately than wait on an approval, call and we'll talk through what that would involve.
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.
Sorrento is visited on the southern Peninsula run with Blairgowrie, Rye and Portsea.
Sometimes, with the right approvals, and sometimes not. We assess what the building and any overlay will actually permit before recommending work — and where modification isn't viable, equipment and technique usually get further than people expect.
Call and ask — it is one of the most common questions we get from Sorrento, and it depends on what you need and how quickly.
With an assessment of how the room is actually used and where the risk sits, rather than with a builder's quote. Often a rail in the right place and the right shower seat solves more than a renovation would.
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.