Children and Young People Equipment Loan Service (CAYPELS)
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Description
Provides specialised equipment for loan to ACT residents up to and including the age of 16 years. Specialised equipment include wheelchairs, seating systems, hoists, standing frames, walking frames, personal care items, shower commodes and communication devices. Clients who wish to use CAYPELS must be referred by their treating clinician, including Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists and Physiotherapists.
Type
Local Service Provider
Alternative Names:
CAYPELS; scypels
Accessible Facilities:
Parking, ramps, and toilets
Referral:
Clinicians who wish to use CAYPELS must register with the service. Contact CAYPELS for more details. Clients who wish to use the service must be referred by a clinician.
Areas Served:
ACT
Last review date:
5/2/25
- People with a Disability
- Children and Families
- Youth
- Wheelchairs
- Walking Frames and Sticks
- Bath and Toilet Aids
- Communication Aids
- Physical Disability
- People with Disability
- Disabled
- People with Disabilities
- Disability
- handicapped
- People with disability
- Children
- teenagers
- Infants
- Infants (0-2)
- Children (0-18)
- Junior
- Kids
- Childhood
- Babies
- Toddlers
- Families
- Young People
- Young Adults
- Young People (12-24)
- Young Adults (18-24)
- Wheel Chairs
- Walking Frames
- Walking Sticks
- Walkers
- Sticks
- Ladders and Steps
- Standing Frames
- Bath Hoists
- Stepping Stools
- Steps
- Hoist Slings
- Pivot Discs
- Stretchers
- Lifting Cushions
- Mobile Hoists
- Chair Lifts
- Catapult Seats/chairs With Special Raising Function
- Bath and Toilet
- Bath and Shower Supports
- Commodes
- Bed Pans
- Physical Disabilities
- Loan
- Hire
- 26 Weingarth Street, Holder, Australian Capital Territory 2611 Australia
- 02 6205 1277
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caypels@act.gov.au
- https://www.communityservices.act.gov.au/childdevelopmentservice/Children__and__Young_Peoples_Equipment_Loan_Service_CAYPELS