This book locates older people as major clients of occupational therapy services. It provides a comprehensive resource for students and a basic working reference for clinicians. The book encompasses current theories, debates, and challenges which occupational therapists need to engage in if they are to provide pro-active and promotional approaches to ageing. Detailed coverage of bodily structures, functions, and pathologies leads onto chapters dedicated to activity, occupation, and participation.
Key Features
- Inspires innovation in the practice of occupational therapy with older people, promoting successful ageing that entails control and empowerment.
- Fully revised and updated new edition.
- Includes brand new material on occupational transitions (retirement, frailty and end of life); user perspectives; public health including advocacy, enablement and empowerment; people entering old age with disability and mental health conditions; visual impairment; assistive technology, driving and ageism.
Additional Information
The ethos of the book is to inspire innovation in the practice of occupational therapy with older people, promoting successful ageing that entails control and empowerment.
Specifications
- Comprehensive resource for students and clinicians.
- Covers current theories, debates, and challenges in occupational therapy for older people.
- Detailed coverage of bodily structures, functions, and pathologies.
