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✨OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY IN GERIATRICS👴🧓✨ (1)

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¿Because the Occupational Therapy Intervention in Geriatrics is relevant?

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¿Because the Occupational Therapy Intervention in Geriatrics is relevant?

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✨The physical, psychological and social changes attributable to old age can limit the ability to perform daily occupations in an optimal way, therefore it is important to promote healthy aging that allows living an active and satisfactory old age.✨

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✨OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY IN GERIATRICS👴🧓✨ (3)

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What is occupational therapy in the elderly  👴🏽👵🏽  ?

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What is occupational therapy in the elderly  👴🏽👵🏽  ?

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It is a therapeutic resource that is based on tasks and exercises around daily activities. With this, it stimulates, prevents and rehabilitates functional impairments that limit the independence of the elderly. Therefore, it provides the opportunity to experience a more fulfilling and active old age.

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Currently, “functional capacity” is taken into account as a parameter for evaluating the health status of the elderly, understanding as functionality the possibility of carrying out certain actions of daily life.🔔

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✨The therapist plays an essential role during training, assessing the real capacity to perform, starting with less demanding activities and gradually increasing the difficulty of the tasks.✨

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Some examples of activities in occupational therapy:

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Some examples of activities in occupational therapy:

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🧠Memory, language, writing, reading and problem solving exercises.
🛀🏽Hygiene and personal care actions practices.
👵🏽Training in technical aids such as walkers, canes and technology.
🧵Manual activities.
⚽Physical therapies.
👩🏽‍🦽Mobility activities.
🎲Play therapy or play therapies.
🎵Music therapy.
🐶🐹🐷Therapies with animals.
👀Visual therapies.

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Drawing made by Graciela Chirú

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Occupational therapy can be divided into 3 areas:

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Occupational therapy can be divided into 3 areas:

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- Self-maintenance area
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- Productive area.💡

- leisure area.🎲🎲

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The passage of time does not mean isolating yourself, becoming useless or stopping doing the things that were previously enjoyed. It is a new natural stage of life to which one must adapt, accept changes and limitations and therefore accept help.✨👴🏽👵🏽

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Maintain and / or improve cognitive performance.

Maintain and / or improve functional performance.

Increase -to the extent possible- autonomy and independence in Activities of Daily Living, both basic and instrumental, leisure and free time.

Improve the state and feeling of health.

Promote social life.

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✨ Basic activities
✨ Non-essential and optional
✨ Social participation activities
✨ Cognitive stimulation
✨ Exercises to improve motor skills
✨ Leisure and free time
✨Transfer activities

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What are activities of daily living (ADL)?👀

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What are activities of daily living (ADL)?👀

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☝🏽The activities of daily life are those that people do on a daily basis, such as eating, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving around, socializing, etc.👇🏽

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Home care, Occupational Therapy and the Elderly

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Occupational Therapy with Elders: Strategies for the COTA, 3e

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Occupational Therapy with Elders: Strategies for the COTA, 3e : Padilla MS OTR/L, Rene, Byers-Connon BA COTA/L ROH, Sue, Lohman MA OTD OTR/L, Helene: Amazon.es: Libros

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Serious injuries and diseases can have a major effect on one's muscle strength and coordination. In some instances, this may require that the person learn how to walk on their own. As the name suggests, occupational therapy (OT) is also designed to assist individuals with valuable skills they can use to remain independent.

According to the American Occupational Therapy Association, occupational therapists help people participate in the things they want and need to do through the therapeutic use of everyday activities. Common occupational therapy interventions include helping people recovering from an injury or health event to regain skills, and providing support for older adults experiencing physical and cognitive changes.

Occupational therapy services typically include assisting the client/family, and occupational therapists determine what the person's goals are - not just to follow a plan of care prescribed by a healthcare professional.
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What do you want to do to maintain or restore your quality of life? Is it being able to walk into the back yard and plant flowers; to cook a meal; to write a letter to your grandson or daughter; or play cards with your friends again? Occupational therapists will consider your goals in helping to plan a customized intervention to improve your ability to perform daily activities and will evaluate your progress to achieve the goals you have set.
Geriatric Occupational Therapy for Older Adults
To provide some helpful insight into how OT operates, consider the scenario of someone who has suffered from a stroke. Before the occurrence, they had no problem walking or speaking clearly, or making use of basic motor skills that are essential for virtually all jobs. Following a stroke, many of those basic functions we take for granted may be compromised.

It is worth emphasizing that life-threatening illnesses and medical conditions rarely inflict just physical damage. The thought of not being able to work or live independently can be mentally and emotionally harmful as well. An article by the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) demonstrated that stroke victims who receive regular OT are far more likely to regain their independence and ability to perform everyday functions following treatment.

As mentioned in another AOTA article, many patients who participate in occupational therapy programs also suffer from some degree of depression. The therapist's role is to facilitate the reintegration process, and to help the person get back to a healthy physical, mental, and emotional state. Family caregivers can play a vital role in a loved one's recovery by encouraging parents who may be reluctant to join OT sessions because of misconceptions concerning its importance.

A landmark study conducted by the University of Southern California over 17 years ago concluded that occupational therapy is not restricted to the ill or infirm. As noted by USC's Health Science Campus's research team, "The Well Elderly Study shows promise for utilizing OT concepts to prevent disease and maintain health in the general public."
Occupational Therapy Treatment Ideas for Geriatrics
One of the most important things you and your loved one can do before signing up for geriatric occupational therapy is to have realistic expectations about how long a successful recovery will take. The degree of success and rate at which particular milestones are met is wholly dependent on each individual's circumstances and their willingness to participate.

The road to recovery is not easy, but with the help of a qualified occupational therapist, your goals can be placed in better reach. Consult with your loved one's doctor about which OT options they recommend, and ask as many questions as you feel necessary. Remember, the final decision is yours to make, and you want to be adequately informed.

The field of geriatric occupational therapy has experienced a wealth of diversification, as more and more practitioners are adopting new treatment methods to suit their clients' needs. These new methods are more open to program changes that are in line with the individual patient's progression. For instance, a recent study concluded that occupational therapy interventions may improve quality of life in older adults with dementia. The study focused on 5 types of occupational therapy activities for older adults:

1. Relaxation techniques: tensing and releasing muscle groups.

2. Physical exercises: range of movement, medicine ball training, and squatting.

3. Personal activities: personal care, dressing and undressing, and household tasks.

4. Cognitive exercises: loud reading, dual task activity, and neurobic exercise.

5. Recreational activities: playing indoor games, story telling, and social events.

While no one type of occupational therapy is better than the next, work with your loved one and their doctor to evaluate which type of therapy is the ideal choice for their circumstances, whether the primary focus is mobility strengthening, to maintain the cognitive skills to live independently or overall well-being.

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Geriatric Occupational Therapy for Older Adults | Griswold Home Care

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Serious injuries and diseases can have a major effect on one's muscle strength and coordination. In some instances, this may require that the person learn how to walk on their own. As the name suggests, occupational therapy (OT) is also designed to assist individuals with valuable skills they can use to remain independent.

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Neurorehabilitation and occupational therapy in the elderly

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Neurorehabilitation and occupational therapy in the elderly

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In occupational therapy, a functional assessment is carried out to then plan training activities in the functions of daily life to functionally re-adapt to the affected person, cognitive and sensory stimulation.

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'Latest articles' are articles accepted for publication in this journal but not yet published in a volume/issue. Articles are removed from the 'Latest articles' list when they are published in a volume/issue. Latest articles are citable using the author(s), year of online publication, article title, journal and article DOI.

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Physical & Occupational Therapy In Geriatrics

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Frequency: Yearly ISSN: 0270-3181 eISSN: 1541-3152 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02703181.2021.1942392 Abstract Aims To assess internal consistency, validity and test-retest reliability of Italian version of Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) in Parkinson's disease (PD) clients. Methods Sixty-one subjects completed COPM at baseline, 45 attended re-test within 10 days. Internal consistency and test-retest reliability were determined on average satisfaction and performance scores.

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Senior Living Communities & Nursing Homes in Indiana | ASC

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Other | April 1, 2014

Occupational therapy is a treatment that involves helping people live more independent and productive lives by incorporating meaningful activities to promote participation in everyday life. It is focused on improving life skills which can lead to better quality of life.

Over one-third of occupational therapists work with seniors after they have been affected by illness, memory loss or injury. They are often elder-care advocates, working to help seniors maintain their independence. One of their most important roles is promoting self-reliance among their patients. This means helping them overcome their physical challenges or limitations, enabling them to return to a normal life at home where they may continue activities of daily living (ADLs), including cooking, feeding themselves, dressing and grooming. Occupational therapy for seniors takes a somewhat unique stance by focusing on what the person can do.

Occupational therapy is also key during the early stages of memory loss. Therapists are trained to assess a patient's cognitive ability and use behavioral modification to help address change in their personalities. Occupational therapists can also help adapt a patient's home for safety, allowing them to maximize their remaining skills to help them maintain their independence. They also educate the family caregivers and connect them with support groups or respite care such as that provided by American Senior Communities for the emotional assistance they may need. In later stages of memory loss, the therapist can focus on simplifying activities or providing sensory stimulation like soothing music to help improve quality of life.

The Benefits of Occupational Therapy for Seniors

1) Overcoming daily life challenges. Occupational therapy helps seniors compensate for some of the challenges they face each day, whether it be dressing, feeding themselves, home management or participation in social activities.

2) Preventing falls. Falls are the leading cause of injury among seniors, and occupational therapists can help them to problem-solve the best way to stay active while avoiding falls.

3) Home environmental modifications. Occupational therapists can help seniors acquire devices like a bathtub bench or grab bars to make their lives easier. Seniors can learn how they can optimize their homes to promote full participation in activities of daily life.

4) Better health and wellness. Occupational therapy can have a positive influence on mental health and life satisfaction. Therapists provide a unique educational approach to help seniors redesign their lives to experience greater quality of life, promote longevity and a healthier lifestyle all around.

5) Working with caregivers. Occupational therapists can assess a family's loved one to help the caregiver make better decisions about their loved one's daily care needs. They alleviate some of the pressure a caregiver might feel when helping their loved one, which will allow them to separate themselves from core care-giving and maintain their own life.

Occupational therapy, while beneficial to those of all ages, is especially helpful to seniors who are regularly faced with physical, mental or psychological challenges. Therapists collaborate with both the senior and their caregivers to ensure a plan is set that works for everyone and allows all involved to reach their own individual goals.

To learn more about the Occupational Therapy services provided by American Senior Communities, visit www.ASCSeniorCare.com/mf .

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Other | April 1, 2014 Occupational therapy is a treatment that involves helping people live more independent and productive lives by incorporating meaningful activities to promote participation in everyday life. It is focused on improving life skills which can lead to better quality of life.

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KEY BENEFITS OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY FOR OLDER ADULTS👏👏

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KEY BENEFITS OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY FOR OLDER ADULTS👏👏

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1.  KEEPS ARTHRITIS AT BAY.
2 .INCREASES MOVEMENT RANGE
3.  IMPROVES VISION.
4. BOOSTS MEMORY & COGNITIVE SKILLS.
5. HELPS COPING WITH CHRONIC PAIN

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Música relajante para personas mayores y ancianos | Sonidos de la naturaleza para calmar la mente

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🎵Relaxing music for the elderly and the elderly🎵

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🎵Relaxing music for the elderly and the elderly🎵

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Música De Relajación Para Dormir Profundamente

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Música De Relajación Para Dormir Profundamente

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Música De Relajación Para Dormir Profundamente

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