Golden Girls Shared Living - 0 views
A blog written by Bonnie Moore on ChangingAging.org focuses light on an important concept of retirement living. In the article Moore highlights the concept she calls the Golden Girls Shared Living,...
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Nature and the outdoors: stimulating those with dementia - 0 views
Evidence suggests that living close with nature and having easy access to the outdoors can have a positive impact on physical and mental well-being. This concept is being studied and implemented t...
iving Life to Its Fullest: Occupational Therapy in Skilled Nursing Facilities. - 0 views
Hofmann, A. O. (n.d.). Living Life to Its Fullest: Occupational Therapy in Skilled Nursing Facilities. The American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc. Retrieved from http://www.aota.org/about-o...
Occupational Therapy Interventions for Chronic Diseases: A Scoping Review - 1 views
* Hand, C., Law, M., & McColl, M.A. (2011). Occupational therapy for interventions for chronic diseases: A scoping review. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 65, 428-436. Doi: 10.5014/ajot.2...
Understanding the Potential of Occupation: A Qualitative Exploration of Seniors' Perspe... - 0 views
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legark on 09 Aug 14This article presents the results from 12 semi-structured interviews with elderly individuals living in the community. These interviews examined the importance of meaningful occupation in their daily lives. Results indicated that occupation played a major role in their lives and led to increased health and well-being, allowing them to remain in the community.
How OTs can help educate about visiting loved ones with dementia - 0 views
For this blog post, I want to concentrate on how we, as future OTs, can help educate family and friends on how to plan a successful visit to a loved one living with dementia. When visiting a person...
Daily living in stroke survivors receiving rehabilitative therapies - 0 views
The aim of the study was to comprehensively investigate and compare the responsiveness and validity of two ADL measures. The subjects consisted of seventy stroke patients, and they received a three...
Occupational therapy for patients with problems in personal activities of daily living ... - 1 views
This article explored if occupational therapy focused specifically on a client's activities of daily living improves recovering following a stroke. The researchers performed a systematic review and...
The Brief Cognitive Assessment Tool (BCAT): A new test emphasizing contextual memory, e... - 1 views
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The BCAT's utility for identifying dementia versus mild cognitive impairment was excellent, with a sensitivity of .99, a specificity of .77, and an area under the receiver-operatingcharacteristic (ROC) curve of .95. Executive control, contextual memory, and attentional capacity items were the best predictors of diagnostic category and of instrumental activities of daily living. From a clinical standpoint, it is recommended a BCAT cut score of 37/38 for differentiating between persons with dementia and those with MCI. This means that patients who have scores of 37 and below are likely to have dementia. This research utilized a population residing in assisted living facilities. Future studies should address a cut off for mild cognitive impairment and non-impaired and community dwelling adults.
Sustainable enhancement in clients who perceive the Tree Theme Method® as a p... - 0 views
I chose this article because of the implications this study may have on the psychosocial needs of patients particularly in a mental health setting with individuals suffering from mental illness. T...
Health Policy Researchers Find Occupational Therapy is Only Spending Category That Redu... - 1 views
Link to article: http://www.aota.org/Publications-News/AOTANews/2016/Occupational-Therapy-Reduces-Hospital-Readmissions.aspx
Occupational Therapy's Role in Community Mental Health - AOTA - 0 views
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This is a fact sheet from AOTA which discusses OT's role in community mental health. This is an area in which OTs play an important role as mental health services shift from a a hospital based setting to more community based. It has been shown that OT interventions help to improve outcomes for those living in the community with serious mental illnesses. OT's can help to address the areas of education, work skills, health/wellness, and cognitive remediation and adaption. This document also discusses ways in which OT can help to address community barriers to functioning such as SES, stigma, safety, and housing options.
Occupational therapy for stroke patients after hospital discharge - a randomized contro... - 0 views
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This articles discusses the effectiveness of occupational therapy for stroke patients following discharge from a stroke unit. There was an experimental group and control group who received no follow up appointments following discharge. Both group were compared one year post-stroke. The article discusses that there were few significant findings, in terms of activities of daily living, IADLs, mood, and percieved quality of life. However, the number of adaptive equipment requested was greater and re-admissions to the hospital was smaller following the one year. This articles points out that stroke patients need occupational therapy services in order to help make sure they have all the resources they need when returning to home post stroke and living a healthy lifestyle following.
Psychosocial Needs of Client - 0 views
This article evaluated the effectiveness of preventative OT services for multiethnic, independent living older adults 60 years of age and older with psychosocial needs. Significant benefits were fo...
Psychosocial needs - 0 views
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This article from AOTA discusses the role of OT in palliative care and relates to the psychosocial needs of clients in this area. It examines the occupational therapy approach in meaningful occupations as holistic and client-centered which "fosters a sense of independence and self-efficacy amidst the challenges of living with debilitating symptoms. The ability to carry out activities of daily living (ADL) is an important goal for patients with life threatening illness, and also has implications for work, social life, relationships, and family and home structure." The article provides examples of intervention for clients in palliative care including, ADLs, IADLs, rest and sleep, play, leisure, social participation, and interpersonal. I think the interpersonal, leisure, and social participation aspects of OT in palliative care going along with clients psychosocial needs. Engaging clients in discussion, coping strategies, and encouraging communication among family members are essential roles of an OT in palliative care. -
This article was located on AOTA's website. It is about the role of occupational therapy in palliative care. The article defines palliative care, occupational therapy, and how the two are connective. The areas of occupation are outlined, and the role of OT in these occupations. The author discusses the importance in not only providing physical comfort to clients in delivering palliative care, but providing psychosocial comfort as well. The article highlights meeting psychosocial and emotional needs of clients as well as families of clients and their caregivers.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3184825/pdf/ijic2011-2011117.pdf - 1 views
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This article discusses the struggles patients go through when living with COPD. The article describes the way that COPD prevents patients from participating in occupations, and causes patients to forfeit roles that they have had throughout their lives. It also discusses the way that these changes lead to depression and anxiety. The article then goes into detail of the ways occupational therapists can provide energy conservation techniques that will allow the patients to regain those roles and participate in occupation and reduce anxiety and depression.
The brief cognitive assessment tool (BCAT): cross-validation in a community dwelling ol... - 1 views
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Cognitive impairment is under-recognized and misdiagnosed among community-dwelling older adults. At present, there is no consensus about which cognitive screening tool represents the 'gold standard.' However, one tool that shows promise is the Brief Cognitive Assessment Tool (BCAT), which was originally validated in an assisted living sample and contains a multi-level memory component (e.g. word lists and story recall items) and complex executive functions features (e.g. judgment, set-shifting, and problem-solving). 75 community dwelling adults took the assessment and the MoCA with a cut off score of <26. A cut off score for the BCAT was 45 after utilizing the results of the study to balance sensitivity and specificity at .81 and .8 respectively. In addition scores can be separated to interpret BCAT memory and executive dysfunction component scores.
Early Functional Limitations in Cognitively Normal Older Adults Predict Diagnostic Conv... - 1 views
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Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) was used to record brain activation during cognitive testing in older individuals living in residential care communities. Using fNIRS, brain signals were recorded during a series of computerized cognitive tests, including a Symbol Digit Coding test (SDC), Stroop Test (ST), and Shifting Attention Test (SAT). An association between advanced age and increased activation in the right middle frontal region was observed during the incongruent ST. Although none of the participants had clinical dementia based on the short portable mental status questionnaire, the group performance was slightly below age-normed values on these cognitive tests. These results demonstrate the capability for obtaining functional neuroimaging measures in residential settings, which ultimately may aid in prognosis and care related to dementia in older adults. If families are educated to look for signs for family members that have dementia they are easily able to discuss long term planning and prevent adverse events due to impaired cognition.
Understanding the Transition to Community Living After Discharge From an Acute Care Hos... - 0 views
Gage, M., Cook, J. V., & Fryday-Field, K. (1997). Understanding the Transition to Community Living After Discharge From an Acute Care Hospital An Exploratory Study. American Journal Of Occupational...
Cognitive reserve and executive function: Effect on judgment of health and safety - 0 views
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The aim of this study was to explore the relationship among cognitive reserve, Executive function, and health and safety judgment among a sample of older adult inpatients of an extended medical care unit at a Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospital. Independent Living Scales (ILS): Health and Safety subtest were used to assess judgement and safety. Executive function was measured by the Trial making test. Global function was measured by the MMSE. After controlling for global cognitive functioning, the results revealed that people with high estimated IQ performed similarly on a measure of health and safety judgment, regardless of their EF abilities. However, among individuals with low estimated IQ it appears that intact EF is critical in making appropriate health and safety decisions. Therefore, the results suggest executive functioning is critical for making appropriate health and safety decisions for patients with lower measured intellectual abilities and provide further support for the cognitive reserve model.