About the portals

The PEER-HOMEcare portals are designed to deliver tailored support for stroke survivors, their families, and healthcare professionals. They were developed through interviews and ongoing feedback with patients, caregivers, and therapists, ensuring the resources are grounded in lived experience and clinical practice.

Find out more about the resources, tools, and support available within each PEER-HOMEcare portal

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To support everyone involved

This program offers two portals: one for healthcare professionals or therapists, and one for stroke survivors and their family members.

For healthcare professionals and/or project therapists

  • Understand the pedagogy and the scientific foundation behind PEER-HOMEcare
  • Learn step-by-step training on how to deliver the intervention, including how to find opportunities for an enriched environment in the home
  • Gain access to relevant assessment toolkits and resources, including how to use the sensors
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For the participant, family member or support person

  • Understand how your home environment influences your activities and how small changes can encourage you performing activities that promote rehabilitation
  • Understand how you (and your family member) can support environmental changes and facilitate activities​
  • Access simple instructions on how to use the sensors with short demonstrations and illustrated guides
  • View practical resourcesand instructions on activity diaries, and how to build on your progress after the intervention is over
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Why the sensors in this intervention matter

As part of PEER-HOMEcare, stroke survivors wear four small motion sensors on each arm for about two hours a day during everyday activities like cooking, eating, or tidying the house.

What they do: the sensors register movement in three dimensions, and show how much you use the affected arm and the quality of movement in the arm.

Why it matters: this helps our therapists see how changes in the home, affect your progress. If improvement is slow, then the environment and your daily routines can be adjusted.

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From Research to Practice

The sensors don’t just collect data, they provide feedback during treatment. After each home visit, the therapist can show simple activity reports, helping participants and families see progress and help you stay motivated.