Essays on Occupational Therapists

Introduction

Occupational therapy focuses on increasing participation in a client’s daily activities. It involves the identification of environmental barriers that limit the customer’s ability to perform his or her daily activities and eliminating them. This is done by modifying the tasks, educating and teaching the skills to the client to enhance his or her daily activities. More emphasis is placed on the needs and goals of the client. Young@Heart is a film about a chorus composed of senior citizens. They sing contemporary songs as well as pop and classic rock songs. Eighty is the average age of ...

Introduction

The article “Weaving the Warp and Weft” analyzes the occupational therapy in both artistic and scientific ways. The metaphor has been applied to show where occupational therapy lies currently and where it will lie in the future. The occupational therapy is defined in both artistic and scientific ways involving direct individuals participating in designated responsibilities to regain, strengthen, and improve performance (Wood, 1995). Two convictions, the warp, and weft are applied to give the best definition of occupational therapy regarding the professional view. The warp of occupational therapy refers to the philosophical beliefs that individuals hold and that impact ...

Benefits of Occupational Therapy in Stroke Rehabilitation

Occupational therapy involves helping a patient relearn day to day activities, consequently enabling the patient to lead a fulfilling and quality life. Being a COTA provides me with the necessary skills and knowledge to help people with sensory, cognitive, and physical disabilities to become independent in their lives. OTs and COTAs adopt a holistic approach of delivering the required care services to the patients by focusing on improving the environment and tasks to fit the patient. OTs and COTAs are part of the multidisciplinary team that delivers care services to patients who need therapy, and they collaborate with other ...

Since I was young, I always knew I would pursue a career where I would help people. I was not sure what that career would be for a long time. When I was 16, my grandfather had a stroke and had to stay in a rehabilitation centre for a while. I did not know of Occupational therapy until that day. When visiting him in the rehabilitation centre, I saw the professionals working to rehabilitate him. I initially thought physical therapy would accommodate my career goals until I witnessed the occupational therapist helping my grandfather. I remember her working with ...

I chose to visit Terrace health and rehabilitation center, a long-term care facility located outside Gainesville off Interstate 75 in Kentucky. However, this was not my first visit to the facility. I had been a very regular visitor of the facility between June and August of 2014 often visiting my grandmother who had been diagnosed with defective heart valves earlier the same year. On all the previous visits, I had been accompanied by other family members. My earlier visits to the facility enabled me to familiarize myself with the staff and the facility's set-up. Consequently, I chose it for ...

The human’s healthy lifestyle and well-being closely depend on the ability to adapt to and participate in life activities. The aim of the occupational therapy is to help patients improve or maintain skills necessary to lead productive and satisfying lives. Thus, the occupational therapy practitioners should understand the dynamic interactions between people, their social life and activities they need to perform on a daily basis. Occupational therapy may be applied within community-based fall prevention programs for seniors, stress and anger management or self-management programs for those with chronic diseases like arthritis, autism and diabetes. The main task of ...

Pet Therapy in Elderly Patients with Mental Illness

The article serves to discuss the effects of pet therapy on the mental processes and the overall well being of elderly inpatients who are affected by dementia, depression and psychosis. The participants in the study include elderly patients in selected nursing homes who are over 65 years old, and has been staying in the institution for 2 months. As a means to determine the baseline cognitive status and depressive symptoms, the participants went through the Mini-Mental State Examination and the 15-item Geriatic Depression scale. Accordingly, the intervention was administered within a 6-week duration in the nursing home, and it ...