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Tips from OT practitioners helping families talk to parents and help older adults stay in their homes.

I found this website is very interesting because like most of us I have an older parents.The one of the most difficult decisions children have to make is to place his or her aging parent in long term care facility. This website provides different tips on how to keep seniors in their regular place of residence as long as possible. The organization PACE that covered under Medicare or Medicaid provides necessary services, include adult day program, transportation, activities and medical help. As a future OT practitioners we may recommend this website to our clients.

This is an interesting association called Adaptive Design Association that works with PT, OT, and parents to help make your own adaptive equipment out of cardboard and other resources.  You can design specific and client centered equipment that is very cost effective.     Truly amazing!

This is a tip sheet I discovered on the AOTA website.  It provides very useful tips for helping your older parent remain at home and age in place safely, as well as ways to approach the topic with them.  I really loved the idea of presenting home modifications as gifts. This tip sheet is of particular interest to me as my mother slowly descends into the world of Alzheimer's disease.

Parents are known to ask a lot of questions about their children. This one I wouldn't be able to answer until I read this article. This wil tell ou when it is a problem and how parents or therapists can address it.

A handout for parents on protecting their children from burns and what to do if they get burned.

As the population ages many of use will have to face sexuality issues with our own parents. Two extremes are represented here, one home where the man was forced to move after found having sex with another resident and one where sexual relationships are considered natural.

I am very passionate about my parents aging in place, so this article caught my eye.

Here are some FREE resources that are dedicated to promoting movement in the classroom, therapy and at home! This website has everything from free handouts to implement in the classroom or with the parents. It also has check lists to use with the child while assessing different things. Really neat website!

This website also has Technology for parents and adults. Technology can be a great tool for students (and adults!) who have learning disabilities like dysgraphia or dyslexia that affect their written expression. We've personally reviewed these mobile apps and we know they're LD-friendly. They can make the writing process a bit easier and even fun!

This website about assistive technology that can be use not only for children with learning disabilities but also for students and adults. With help of assistive technology kids don't have to depend on their parents, they can success independently. This website helps induviduals to select technology for their special needs, for example: AT for math, reading, listening, etc.

This site talks about burns in a pediatric setting. How to prevent, how to treat, and it discusses physical and emotional recovery.

I found this article when I was making my marketing webpage for practice management. A lot of children who are effected with long term illness or disease fall behind in their development. Occupational therapy helps them catch up and reach important developmental milestones so that they may be more successful in play and learning. This pamphlet is for parents of children at St. Jude explaining what OT is and how it can help their children.

Here is a combination of stroller and wheelchair. They refer to it as Stroller adapted elderly wheelchair being used by grand-parents to increase the time spent with their grandchild.

Nobody wants to focus on handwriting. hand strength is a common problem in OT pediatrics so here are some ways to make it fun. It can be done in therapy or shared with parents for fun at home. They are also organized into categories.