Medical Director of Rehabilitation
Umeå municipality
Country:
United Kingdom
About Maria Lindström:
My position as a Medical Director of Rehabilitation holds a responsibility for quality improvement and monitoring of licensed occupational therapists’ and physiotherapists’ services to citizens in Umeå municipality. The areas include community based rehabilitation, elderly care, social psychiatry, intellectual disabilities, physical disabilities, health care services in the home, etc.
My former PhD-project included development and implementation of an intervention-model for rehabilitation in sheltered and supported housings, and my interests focus on improving community-based interventions in line with best practice guidlines.
ProfouND Role:
My primary role is to keep an eye on municiapal interests regarding evidence-based falls prevention interventions, and hopefully also contribute to fruitful cooperations. Locally my role is to anchor, inspire and supervise the implementation of falls prevention interventions. Right now the main issue is to find possible forms of cascade training of exercise trainers and istructors to reduce falls amongs older people at risk.
