{"id":8362,"date":"2019-03-28T11:33:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T11:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/?p=8362"},"modified":"2019-03-28T11:33:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T11:33:48","slug":"otpersonalisedcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/otpersonalisedcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Talking Mats to make Personalised Care a Reality for Occupational Therapists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Woolcomb, our Talking Mats OT Associate, tells us about the recent Royal College of Occupational Therapists&#8217; Report and considers the ways Talking Mats can support:<\/p>\n<p>The Royal College of Occupational Therapists have recently published a new report. \u201cMaking personalised care a reality: The role of occupational therapy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the OT Associate for Talking Mats, I took the opportunity to review the document and consider how Talking Mats can help OT\u2019s in fulfilling the recommendations made.<\/p>\n<p>The report recognises that people living with long-term conditions bring different and equally important, knowledge and expertise to the decision \u2013making process.<\/p>\n<p>It challenges OT\u2019s to ensure that they really listen to, and hear the views of the people they work with.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/talking_mats.tif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/talking_mats.tif\" alt=\"talking_mats\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Talking Mat can help facilitate this. It helps people to understand what is being discussed, to reflect and organise their thoughts, to say what matters most to them and record their views. It helps OT\u2019s to really listen, to learn new information, to involve the person in their own planning and support decision making.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about how Talking Mats can help OT\u2019s to make personalised care a reality in the TMOT Resource 1:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/TM-Personalised-Care-Copy.pdf\">TM Personalised Care &#8211; Copy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The RCOT report is available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcot.co.uk\/news\/delivering-personalised-care-frontline\">https:\/\/www.rcot.co.uk\/news\/delivering-personalised-care-frontline<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rachel would love to hear from you if you have any examples of how Talking Mats have helped you to provide personalised care, or if you want to know more about OT and Talking Mats. Her email is:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Rachel@talkingmats.com\">Rachel@talkingmats.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are feeling inspired and would like to find out about accessing Talking Mats Foundation Training, take a look at our upcoming courses across the UK, as well as online and organisational training\u00a0options: <span style=\"color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/training\/\"><span style=\"color: #0563c1;\">https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/training\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Rachel Woolcomb, our Talking Mats OT Associate, tells us about the recent Royal College of Occupational Therapists&#8217; Report and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,24,51,46,34,9,87,15,54,88,72,17,27,10,47,12,21],"tags":[16,18,20,23,44,45,48,65,73,92,94,11,13,14],"class_list":["post-8362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-communication-difficulties","category-dementia","category-digital-talking-mats","category-hospice","category-icf","category-impact-evaluation","category-learning-disability","category-talking-mats-principles","category-mental-health","category-occupational-therapy","category-participation","category-person-centred-approach","category-personalisation","category-self-directed-care","category-self-management","category-training","tag-learning-disability-2","tag-participation","tag-training","tag-communication-difficulties","tag-app","tag-digital-2","tag-self-directed-care","tag-goal-setting","tag-occupational-therapy-2","tag-hospice","tag-person-centred","tag-personalisation","tag-talking-mats","tag-empowerment"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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