Evaluating reablement programs

Supporting people living with dementia through reablement.

Practitioner Guide

This assessment guide is designed to be used by allied health practitioners who are delivering reablement programs to individuals living with dementia. The guide provides a structured approach to evaluating meaningful reablement program outcomes for the person living with dementia.

It involves three stages:

1. Choosing therapy goals with clients using newly developed Reablement Goal Lists
2. Defining these goals using a new dementia-specific adaptation of the SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound) Framework
3. Scoring using the Gas-Light adaptation of Goal Attainment Scaling to record and evaluate program outcomes