ECL Ward-led Enablement helps woman with restricted mobility regain her confidence and independence.

Jane, who lives with her husband, was admitted to hospital in North Essex after she experienced regular shortness of breath and had trouble moving around.

Hospital staff referred her to ECL’s Ward-Led Enablement service so that she could work on improving her mobility during her stay. The team also helped her with the aspects of her personal care that she was unable to undertake herself.

With ECL’s help, she slowly learned how to use a frame to move around more freely.

Jane said: “The ECL girls on the ward have helped a lot and I feel that working with the ‘ladies in the red uniform’ has helped with my confidence and recovery.

As a result of her progress with the Ward-led Enablement team, Jane was discharged and continued her recovery with the ECL Reablement team at home.

Jane continued: “The transition home has been very good, my family helped on the first day and then the carers started the next. I was impressed with how quickly the care package got put in place.”

Her goals for her period of home care are to learn how to use a four-wheeled walker, to be able to use her car again and be able to manager her personal care independently.

She said: “I think that the work that the girls have put made my transition home go very well. I wasn’t thrilled about being in hospital, but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. Now home, I am getting on well, I have two calls a day, the carers have been brilliant. I am mobilising a lot more, have got rid of the frame and am using a four-wheeled walker instead, I feel much better.”