Rehabilitation helps individuals achieve as much independence as possible in their daily activities, enabling participation in education, work, recreation, and meaningful life roles, such as caring for family members.

It involves a range of interventions designed to optimise function and reduce disability, allowing people to live life to the fullest.

This process includes regaining skills, abilities, and knowledge that may have been lost or impaired due to illness, injury, or disability. It also involves collaborating with the individual, their family, and/or carers to address underlying health conditions and their symptoms. Efforts may include modifying the environment to better suit their needs, providing education to enhance self-management and adapting tasks to ensure they can be performed more safely and independently.

To better illustrate how rehabilitation works for someone in need of rehabilitation, we have categorised the process into three key areas: