Occupational Therapy with Aging Adults: Promoting Quality of Life through Collaborative Practice – PDF

Occupational Therapy with Aging Adults: Promoting Quality of Life through Collaborative Practice (PDF) is a brand new, complete textbook edited by OT and gerontological consultants Margaret Perkinson and Karen Frank Barney that takes a novel interdisciplinary and collaborative method in overlaying virtually every main facet of geriatric gerontological occupational remedy observe. With 30 chapters written by 70 eminent leaders in OT and gerontology, this ebook covers the whole continuum of look after the growing older inhabitants alongside with particular issues for this quickly rising demographic. This modern textbook additionally covers topical points spanning the areas of moral approaches to remedy; pharmacological points; diet and oral well being issues; assistive expertise helps; low imaginative and prescient interventions; and extra to make sure readers are nicely versed in each facet of this key observe space.

• UNIQUE! The chapter on oral well being explores the challenges confronted by older adults.
• Case examples assist college students study to use new data to precise affected person conditions.
• Questions on the finish of every chapter can be utilized for dialogue or different studying functions.
• A chapter on proof-primarily based observe discusses easy methods to incorporate proof into the scientific setting.
• The chapter on ethics gives a deeper understanding of easy methods to tackle difficult moral dilemmas.
• UNIQUE! Intraprofessional and interprofessional method to intervention emphasizes working holistically and collaboratively in serving older adults.
• UNIQUE! A chapter on the wide selection of physiological adjustments among the many growing older affected person inhabitants highlights associated occupational efficiency points.

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