As a carer your role is not to do things “for” the individuals you care for but to do things “with” them. Your role is to work in partnership with the individual and support their decisions, regarding their care and support them to do as much as possible for themselves. If you provide too much care for an individual they can lose skills, not learn new skills and do not regain skills they have lost. By providing active support and encouraging the individual to participate in their daily living needs you are helping them to develop and maintain their skills for everyday life. Individuals may have an evaluation to assess their physical skills. This may be carried out by an occupational therapist who will assess how well an individual can function in daily life and participate in their environment. The OT will assess what equipment and adaptations are appropriate which might assist an individual to remain as independent as possible. Occupational therapy has been shown to be successful for the elderly population with many medical conditions and surgical recoveries. Therapists work with individuals to improve their strength and regain or maintain necessary life skills. Occupational therapists working with the geriatric community counsel families, groups in the community and local governments, to make sure that each sector is doing its part to help the elderly to maintain their independence. Occupational therapy also helps geriatric clients and patients with other activities to assist in diminishing the possibility of social isolation and its unpleasant side effects. They do this by helping elderly clients and patients continue social activities they know and encouraging them to get involved in new ones as well as showing these folks ways to continue to learn in spite their limitations. Occupational therapy also promotes mind stimulating activities. These mental gymnastics give the seniors feelings of self-worth and may help them avoid getting dementia. Encouraging…
O.T Necessity: Occupational therapy is needed to address this patient’s issue of Attention span so that the patient can function and perform their activities required in daily life.…
Birrell S. (2007). Defining an occupational therapy intervention for people with psychosis. British Journal of Occupational Therapy. 70 (3) 96-106…
In the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework 3rd edition, a client factors are specific capacities, characteristics, or beliefs that reside within the person that influence performance in occupations. That further can be broken down into 5 different characteristics which make up client factors. The first is values; which are principles, standards and qualities that are considered worthwhile to each patient. Second is beliefs; which are cognitive contents held as true. Third is spirituality, which is being spiritual. Lastly, is body structure and functions which can be merged together to be clearly defined as “physiological function of body systems and anatomical parts of the body such as organs, limbs, and their components.” (W.H.O., 2001)…
Reed, K. L. (1991). Myasthenia Gravis. In K. L. Reed, Quick Reference to Occupational Therapy (pp. 337-341). Gaithersburg: Aspen Publishers.…
For this assignment, you will watch a video webcast, “Immobility and Functional Decline: Avoiding the Spiral.” You will also read the article that accompanies it, take the test attached to the article, and complete the self-reflection questions in this document.…
Low-impact activities of daily living, walking, swimming, and stationary bicycling can strengthen unaffected muscles, improve cardiovascular health, and help patients fight fatigue and depression. Range of motion and stretching exercises can help prevent painful spasticity and shortening of muscles. Physical and occupational therapists can show you exercises that provide these benefits without overworking muscles. They can suggest devices such as ramps, braces, walkers, bathroom equipment like shower chairs, toilet risers, and wheelchairs that help patients remain mobile. Occupational therapists can provide or recommend equipment and adaptations to enable people to retain as much safety and independence in activities of daily living as possible.…
At different stages of life individuals might have different health problems that affect their skills for everyday life. Being aware of the activities of daily living helps care…
As an Occupational Therapist, I will be treating clients who possess a variety of developmental, physical, and mental conditions. I will be therapeutically assisting clients who suffer from a disability, illness, or an injury. I will guide a client to develop, recover, and maintain their daily living, social, and working skills towards their goals.…
The Model of Human Occupation (MOHO) is a conceptual practice model designed by theorists Gary Kielhofner, that is based on an open systems theory which is greatly used by occupational therapist. This theory guides their thinking on human occupational behavior and occupational dysfunction that may be caused by disease, trauma, stress or other factors and provides a framework for gathering information on the client and used to select the appropriate course of therapy.…
I implemented the information I received from reading the article Design of the Physical exercise during Adjuvant Chemotherapy Effectiveness Study, which showed effectiveness of physical exercise in improving physical fitness and reducing fatigue after chemotherapy.…
Occupational scientists study the “phenomenological aspects of occupation through qualitative research”. Occupational scientists focus on human occupation and study humans as occupational beings. This means that there is not one direct way to study occupations but rather many ways in studying occupations. This involves studying the different aspects of occupations by asking individuals about their experiences when accomplishing tasks. These different aspects include the subjective individual experiences, meanings behind participating in occupations, and bodily experiences when engaging in occupations. It is important to study these qualitative aspects along with the study of observable quantitative aspects because they go hand-in-hand with…
* Feelings of stress interfering with functioning; social and occupational skills are impaired affecting the patient's ability to function, pursue required tasks and seek treatment…
Adults with development disabilities in nursing homes are living longer and have been taken as a living part of our community. They may possess a variety of developmental health disabilities which can be seen in any healthcare settings especially in nursing homes. Therefore, there is the need to provide occupational therapy to adults who have developmental disabilities. They need occupational therapists who promote health and participation of people, populations and organizations through engagement in occupation. Just like the healthy adult human beings, adults with development disabilities need bathing, glooming, education, rest, sleep, work and many others.…
Occupational therapists are usually working with patients that are not necessarily looking reach ‘normal’ life. They work to educate their patients on how to take care of their daily hygiene tasks, and other work and hobby related skills with their impairment. Education in occupational therapy gives individuals the tools they need to feel they are living a purposeful life. Conversely physical therapists often have patients that are looking to make huge improvements by the time they are finished with treatment. The education physical therapists give individuals is also important, they teach people how to properly perform their exercise routines without inflicting damage to their bodies (Institute for Career Research 11). They also teach patients how to do therapy at home to further their results. Physical therapists similarly give patients tools to make daily tasks easier; however, their goal is to get the patients back their prior state of life so these tools are not meant to be long-term…