What is rehabilitation? English
Kela rehabilitation
What is rehabilitation? Rehabilitation helps you to function in work and daily life. In the rehabilitation you get help, if you have
¤ physical
¤ psychological
¤ social problems
Rehabilitation means services and methods which help you to get better functional ability and working abililty. Rehabilitation recover/develop/improve your skills needed for daily living and working ability. Rehabiliation improves on your independent activities of daily life and employment. The goal of the rehabilitation is to give you the best independent life and fluent ordinary life. During the rehabilitation your sickness or disability cannot be removed or treated.
Functional ability means , that you get along in your own life and the society. You can take care of yourself and the things, which are importanti to you. Functional abililty is physical, psychological and social.
Working ability means that you are able to work. Working ability can weaken due to/because of different reasons. It is difficult or impossible to work if the persons working ability is weak.
How to get to the rehabilitation? In order to get to the Kelas rehabilitation you need a doctors medical certificate/statement B or the rehabilitation plan from hospital and application form for multidisciplinary individual rehabilitation application (KU 132), for intensive medical rehabiliation application (KU 10) and for vocational rehabilitation (KU 101).
In order to fill out the application form, you get help from
¤ central hospital’s rehabiliation counselor
¤ Kela’s service/kela employee
¤ the expert on advocacy work or vocational counselor of the finnish federation of the visually impaired
¤ the expert on advocacy work of the the finnish federation of hearing
¤ the expert onadvocacy of the federation of the finnish federation of the deaf
¤ rehabilitation provider’s counselor
Guidance in applying services you get
¤ the Support center Hilma
Rehabiliation and adaptation training course gives you
¤ information and support the illnes or impairment has brought to you
¤ information of the rehalibitation and other supportive possibilities
¤ peer support
Multidisciplinary individual rehabilitation gives you
¤ personal guidance and assistance to your abililty to cope with everyday tasks
¤ peer support
Vocational rehabilitation assessment is useful to you if your ability to work or study has deacreased or will deacrease in in the next few years beacuse of an illness or impairment and you need support sorting aout your situation and rehabilitation options.
You can apply to the rehalibitation, if you work or you get the social assistance ( unemployment benefitor basic social assistance) in Finland.
You can get a compensationn for cost of travel to and from the rehabiliation site. You pay a copayment of up to 25 eruos for each trip.
During rehabilitation, you can get a rehabilitation allowance.
When the child or the young one/adolescent is in the rehabilitation, parents and siblings participate in the rehabilitation and they have their own program
The duration of the rehabiliation and adaptation training course is usually five days
The duration of the multidisciplinary individual rehabilitation is maximum 16 days and it will be divided into the five day periods. The rehabiliation will be carried out during the 1.5 year period
The duration of the vocational rehabilitation assessment is maximum 16 days.
The rehibilitation center/provider will be close to your home or in the other part of Finland. Your illness or impairment effects to that.
Your rehabilitation comprises both individual and group-based programmes. You can get the interpreter to the individual meetings. To get the Kelas interpreter you have to fill out the Kelas application form.
During your rehabiliation you can stay overnight in the rehalibiliation center/institutution. I you wish you can go home for night.
There will be other specialists as well.
During your rehalibitation yoy will see specialist physician, nurse, physical therapist, psychologist, social workeroccupational therapist, vocational councellor.
More information www.terveyskyla.fi/kuntoutus.
Rehabilitation with plain language https://kuntoutussaatio.fi/assets/files/2020/03/Kuntoutus-selkokielellä-verkkojulkaisu.pdf
Rehabilitation for child or adolescent:
Rehabiliation and adaptation training course. When the child or adolescent has illness, impairment or syndrome, his or her family doesn’t need to be alone. The purpose is to get family’s life and everyday living as good and fluent as possible.
During the rehabilitation child, adolescent, parents and siblings get
¤ information and support
¤ information of the child’s special needs and the treatment
¤ information of the rehabiliation and other possibilities for assistance
¤ instructions for the everyday life and the child’s environment
¤ peer support
The child or adolescent might have: ADHD, Asperger, autism, diabets type I, asthma, BPD (bronkopulmonaalinen dysplasia), rheumatoid arthiritis, heart disease, CP- or physical disability, developmental disability, fragile x or Prade-Wills syndrome, linguistic deficiency, hearing defect, visually impaired, craniosynostosis, brain damage, developmental disorder of the intestines,cancer
Multidisciplinary individual rehabilitation. During the individual rehabilitation you and the child or adolescent has the opportunity to familiarize yourself/get acquinted with that part of the everyday living you need suppot. The rehalibiliation is the moment to stop in the well being of your family
The purpose of the rehabilitation is
¤ seek, practise and take home the options that make everyday living easier
¤ enhance functional ability and well being
¤ support parents in the parenting and rehabilitation of the child and young/adolescent
¤ give peer support
Rehabilitation for adult
Rehabiliation and adaptation training course. When you have illness, impairment or syndrome, you don’t need to be alone.
During the rehabilitation you get
¤ support, information and guidance in the new situation
¤ information of the treatment of your illness
¤ information of the rehabiliation and other possibilities for assistance
¤ peer support
¤ help to recognize your resources
Multidisciplinary individual rehabilitation. During the individual rehabilitation you have the opportunity to familiarize yourself/get acquinted with that part of the everyday living you need suppot. The goal of the rehabiliation is the good life despiste of the illness /disabililty.
The purpose of the rehabilitation is
¤ to give you concrete and individually planned support to your life situation
¤ to find your resources to master your everyday living
¤ to find concrete means/ways to manage at home, work or at school
¤ give peer support
Vocational rehabilitation assessment is useful, if your illness or disability has decrease or will decrease in the next few years your
¤ ability to work or study
¤ earnings
Durint the rehabilitation you will be supported
¤ staying in and moving into the working world
¤ getting new job
¤ selecting the right career
¤ studying
During the rehabilitation your
¤ functional and working ability will be sorted out
¤ your vocational rehabilitation options will be evalulated
