Emily Granstrom

Emily will provide ongoing support and equipment provision by assessing the home environment alongside the client’s needs.  Emily is responsible for managing their ongoing therapy input, as well as assessing for and providing moving and handling equipment, recommendations for care, equipment including wheelchair provision and referring for housing adaptations.  Emily works closely with the client’s family and carers and other members of the multi-disciplinary team.

As a specialist neurological Occupational Therapist, Emily works with a high proportion of individuals who have a neurological impairment either as a result of a traumatic event or through acquired brain injury (Stroke, MS, MND and Parkinson’s along with other neurological conditions).  This commonly results in associated cognitive deficits and mental health complications, alongside other multiple heath conditions such as obesity, diabetes, depression, anxiety and dementia.  Emily is aware of the importance of considering all of these factors when co-ordinating a person’s care needs.

Many of these patients have long term and degenerative conditions.  Emily offers palliative care to patients with conditions such as Motor Neurone Disease, brain tumours and cancer.

Emily also works with many individuals with complex orthopaedic injuries, including multiple fractures, joint replacements and pre-existing or new lower limb amputations.

She is confident in her experience of supporting clients with mental health concerns, hearing loss, and bladder/ bowel issues in addition to their primary injury/condition.

Prior to this Emily lived and worked in Sweden for 10 years and speaks Swedish fluently.  Initially she worked on orthopaedic and stroke wards before working within the community with both children and adults with mild to severe learning disabilities.  Her duties included giving support and advice to the individual, their families and carers as well as selecting, prescribing and fitting equipment (cognitive, communication and daily living).   Latterly she worked on a stroke and general medicine ward in a leading CARF-accredited (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) specialist rehabilitation hospital.  Clients were admitted for an intensive period of rehabilitation with a multidisciplinary team.  Her duties included assessing and identifying the client’s areas of difficulty, followed by planning and implementing the relevant treatment and assessing treatment outcomes.  Emily liaised between the hospital and social services with regards to the planning of appropriate and safe patient discharge.