Evalyn Clement’s Background Information My client, Evalyn Clement, is a sixty-nine-year-old Caucasian woman. She lives with her husband and has two kids who both live several hours away. Her son grew up using a wheelchair, so her house is one-story and wheelchair accessible. She is a retired teacher and was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease when she was fifty-seven. She has spent most of her time since her diagnosis working on her hobbies, volunteering, and staying active by taking classes at her local gym and exercising daily with friends. She makes cards, crochets blankets and hats, and sews quilts and memory bears to donate to the community and to members of her church. She does her church’s bulletin board each quarter and does any other…show more content… The supplies to adapt handheld tools for Evalyn’s tremors will cost about ten dollars to get one of each required item and one scoop plate will cost about eighteen dollars. Evalyn has Medicare which will cover a walker with a prescription, however the shower chair and raised toilet seat cannot be paid for with insurance. So, Evalyn’s kids have decided to pay for the walker, toilet seat, and shower chair and any smaller assistive technology that she needs since they are able to. Training and Assessment The assistive technology mentioned requires little to no training. Evalyn will need to learn how to use the 2 in 1 rollator walker properly, although it will not require formal training. The raised toilet seat will just need to be installed onto the toilet, which does not require any extra equipment or professional help. The shower chair will just need to be assembled and placed in the shower, which can also be done without extra resources. In 6 months, Evalyn’s symptoms could be the same, or they could have worsened. Even so, the assistive technology for her tremors should improve her quality of life for as long as it helps, and the walker, toilet seat, and shower chair should still work for as long as she can
