Table 1 Features of the reablement intervention

• The rehabilitation period will be a maximum of 3 months.

• Training in daily activities such as dressing, food preparation, vacuuming, bus transport, visiting friends at a club, or being able to knit.

• An occupational therapist or physiotherapist will conduct the COPM interview and develop the rehabilitation plan together with the participant based on the identified activity goals. Thereafter, an integrated multidisciplinary team with shared goals will guide the participant during the whole rehabilitation period.

• Adaptations such as advice on appropriate assistive technology or adapting the activity itself or the environment, in order to simplify activity performance.

• In addition to home-care personnel assisted training, a minimum of one hour physiotherapist and/or occupational therapist assisted training will be guaranteed each week.

• Exercise programs such as indoor or outdoor walking with or without walking aids, climbing stairs, transferring, and performing exercises to improve strength, balance or fine motor skills. The exercises will be incorporated into daily routines and the person will be given a manual explaining each of the exercises and encouraged to train on their own.

• The treatment will involve repetitive training and multiple home-visits by health-care personnel, who will be present during daily training for the purposes of building confidence and relearning skills.

• All health-care personnel will stimulate the participant in self-management and self-training.