Homecare
Rehabilitation built for later life. Strength, balance and pain on one side, the ordinary tasks of the day on the other, at home or in our studio.
Medically reviewed by the Aegis Clinical Team
Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy works on what the body can produce. Leg and grip strength, standing balance, how far a stiff shoulder or a replaced knee will move, how steady the walking is, and how much pain is in the way.
With older patients the target is rarely athletic. It is standing up from a chair without a hand, walking to the gate without stopping, getting up the two steps at the front door. Sessions use graded exercise, resistance bands and weighted balls, balance and gait work, joint mobilisation and hands on pain management, and chest physiotherapy where breathing is the limiting factor.
Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy works on the day itself. Getting out of bed, washing, dressing, using the toilet safely, making a cup of tea, managing the stairs, keeping to a routine when memory is failing.
The therapist watches the task being done in the place it is actually done, then changes the method, the equipment or the room until it is safe and possible again. That often means a grab rail in the right position, a raised seat, a different sequence for dressing, or a kitchen reorganised so nothing needed daily sits above shoulder height.
Together
Strength without a safe bathroom changes nothing. A perfect bathroom is no use to someone who cannot stand up. Most families arrive needing both and end up managing two providers who never speak to each other.
At Aegis they are one service, one assessment and one set of notes in Aegis OS, visible to the geriatrician, the caregiver and the family. If your parent is also on an Aegis caregiver placement, the exercises go into the caregiver’s daily plan rather than being forgotten between visits.
Where It Happens
The same therapists and the same plan in both settings. Many patients start at home and move into the studio as they get steadier, and some keep both.
Your therapist comes to the house. Nothing to arrange, no transfer into a car, no waiting room, and the assessment happens in the rooms where the falls and the struggles actually occur.
This is usually the right setting straight after a hospital discharge, for a frail or bed bound patient, where memory problems make a new place confusing, and for every piece of occupational therapy work on the home itself.
A purpose built rehabilitation space with parallel bars, plinths, graded resistance equipment and balance training gear that will not fit in a living room, with the geriatric team in the same building.
This suits patients who are already mobile, who need progressive loading to keep improving, or who do better with the structure of going somewhere for their session. It is also where we run gait retraining properly.
Rates are not published yet. Send an enquiry and we will put a written fee in front of you before anything is booked.
What We Treat
Geriatric rehabilitation is its own discipline. Older patients recover on a different timeline, carry several conditions at once, and lose ground quickly when a programme is pitched wrong.
Stroke Recovery
Parkinson’s
Dementia & Daily Routine
Frailty & Fall Risk
Hip & Knee Replacement
Fracture Rehabilitation
Arthritis & Chronic Pain
Chest Physiotherapy & COPD
Post Cardiac Rehabilitation
Bed & Chair Transfers
The Session
The first visit is longer, because it is the assessment. After that the shape is the same every time.
Strength, balance, joint range, walking, pain and the daily tasks that have become difficult, measured rather than guessed, so progress can be shown later.
Written goals in plain language, agreed with your parent and the family. Walk to the gate. Manage the stairs. Get out of the bath alone.
The session itself. Graded exercise, resistance bands and balls, balance and gait work, hands on treatment, or task practice in the room where the task belongs.
What changed since last time, what to continue between visits, and a briefing for the family or the caregiver, with the notes in Aegis OS.
Therapy at Home
Most falls we see are not caused by weak legs alone. They are caused by a wet bathroom floor with nothing to hold, a bed that is too low to rise from, a step that is half an inch higher than the rest, or the thing used every morning that now sits on the top shelf.
Our therapist walks the house with your parent, watches the routine as it is genuinely done, and leaves you with a short list of what to change and in what order. Some of it costs nothing and takes an afternoon. Then the balance and strength work happens in the same rooms, holding the same furniture, so what is practised is what is actually used.
Where an Aegis caregiver is in the home, the therapist trains them on the transfers and the exercises directly, so the plan survives past the visit.
Cognitive Occupational Therapy
Some patients walk perfectly well and still cannot get through the morning. Memory, attention, sequencing and recognition go before the legs do, and the family usually notices it as the kettle left on, the same question three times, or a bath that never happens.
Occupational therapy works on that too. Structured attention and matching tasks, sequencing practice through a real routine, visual cues placed where the decision is made, and a simplified daily order that the patient can hold without prompting.
This runs alongside the memory work our Memory Care clinic does, rather than in place of it, and the same notes reach the geriatrician.
Who Leads It
Lead Physiotherapist, Aegis Health
Vidhya holds an MSc in Physiotherapy with a specialisation in Cardiorespiratory Rehabilitation and a BSc in Physiotherapy, both from Dr. M.G.R. Educational and Research Institute in Chennai, and has practised for ten years.
She has worked at Nawaloka Premier Center and at Aayu by Nawaloka Premier in Colombo 7, and at Chiro House in Colombo 4, and is the founder and chief physiotherapist of Physio Plus in Colombo 3. Her practice covers geriatric, cardiorespiratory, orthopaedic and neurological rehabilitation.
Geriatric rehabilitation
Cardiorespiratory rehabilitation
Neurological rehabilitation
Orthopaedic & post operative
Pain & injury management
Exercise & functional training
Vidhya works alongside Dr. Sithira Senevirathne and the Aegis clinical team, so rehabilitation goals are set with the geriatrician rather than in isolation.
Questions
The service opens shortly. We are taking enquiries and building the waiting list now, and we will contact you with a start date and a fee in writing before anything is booked.
Physiotherapy works on the body: strength, balance, walking, joint movement and pain. Occupational therapy works on the task: getting out of bed, dressing, bathing, cooking and moving safely around the house. Most of our patients need both, which is why we run them as one service.
Yes. Home physiotherapy and occupational therapy is the larger part of what we do, and for a frail or recently discharged patient it is usually the right setting. Occupational therapy in particular works best in the house itself, because the problem is the house.
A short reassessment, the guided exercise or task practice itself, and a review of what has changed since the last visit. Your therapist also shows the family or the caregiver what to continue between sessions, because the work between visits is where most of the progress comes from.
For most cases we start with an assessment by our physiotherapist. Where the picture is complex, or where there is a recent fall, fracture, stroke or surgery, our Consultant Geriatrician reviews the case first and sets the rehabilitation goals.
Rates are not published yet. Send an enquiry and we will give you a written fee for your parent’s situation once the service opens.
Yes. Your therapist brings what the session needs, including resistance bands, weighted balls and balance aids. We will also tell you if a grab rail, a raised seat or a walking frame would make the house safer.
Tell us what your parent is struggling with. When physiotherapy and occupational therapy open, the families already on the list are contacted before anyone else.
Supervised by Sri Lanka's first board-certified Consultant Geriatrician