Occupational Therapy with Aging Adults, 2nd Edition
Hardcover
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Get all the information you need to work holistically, creatively, and collaboratively when providing services for older adults with Karen Frank Barney, Margaret A. Perkinson, and Debbie Laliberte Rudman’s Occupational Therapy with Aging Adults, 2nd Edition. Emphasizing evidence-based, occupation-based practice and a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach, this text walks students and practitioners through the full range of gerontological occupational therapy practice, inclusive of working with individual clients to working at systems and societal levels. Over 80 leaders in their respective topical areas contributed to the book’s 33 chapters, including the conceptual foundations and principles of gerontological occupational therapy, bio-psychosocial age-related changes, environmental forces shaping occupational participation for older adults, the continuum of health care as well as implications for communities, and the attributes, ethical responsibilities, and roles involved in gerontological occupational therapy. This edition also covers topical OT issues that are crucially important to an aging population — such as diversity and inclusion, disability and aging, sexuality, technology, telehealth and virtual environments, intergenerational connections, updates on dementia research and caring for someone with dementia, occupational justice and aging, age inclusive communities, and an expanded section on hearing — to ensure your students are well versed in every aspect of this key practice area.
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- UNIQUE! Intraprofessional and interprofessional approach to intervention emphasizes working holistically and collaboratively in serving older adults.
- UNIQUE! Chapter on the wide range of physiological, musculoskeletal, and neurological changes among the aging patient population highlights related occupational performance issues.
- Case examples help you learn to apply new information to actual client and community situations.
- Chapter on evidence-based practice discusses how to incorporate evidence into clinical or community settings.
- Questions at the end of each chapter can be used for discussion or other learning applications.
- UNIQUE! Chapters on nutrition, food insecurity, and oral health explore related challenges faced by older adults.
- Chapter on ethics provides a deeper understanding of how to address challenging ethical dilemmas.
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- NEW! Chapters address the key topics of Aging Disgracefully: Perspectives on Disability Experience and Activism from Disability Studies and Anthropology; Humanities and the Arts in Later Life; The Role of Occupational Therapy in Primary Care; and Creating Age-Inclusive Communities.
- NEW! eBook version is included with print purchase that allows access to all the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.
- NEW and UPDATED! Content explores diversity and inclusion, sexuality and aging, technology, telehealth and virtual environments, recent research on driving in later life, occupation and social transformation, intergenerational connections, caring for someone with dementia, occupational justice and aging, hearing, and arts and humanities.
- Updated references ensure content is current and applicable to today’s practice.
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SECTION I Conceptual Foundations of
Gerontological Occupational Therapy
1 Introduction: Gerontological Occupational
Therapy
2 Ethical and Legal Aspects of Occupational
Therapy Practice With Older Adults
3 The Epidemiology of Health Status and
Quality of Life Among Older Adults:
Implications for Occupational Therapy
4 Social Theories of Aging Relevant to
Occupational Therapy
5 Foundations of Evidence-Based
Gerontological Occupational Therapy
Practice
6 Approaches to Screening and Assessment in
Gerontological Occupational Therapy
7 Occupational Therapy Intervention Process
With Aging Adults
SECTION II Age-Related Biological System
Changes and Gerontological Occupational
Therapy
8 Musculoskeletal System Changes With
Aging: Implications for Occupational
Therapy
9 Physiological and Neurological System
Changes With Aging and Related
Occupational Therapy Interventions
10 Occupational Therapy Interventions for
Older Adults With Low Vision or Hearing
Impairment,
11 Aging Disgracefully: Perspectives on
Disability Experience and Activism From
Disability Studies and Anthropology
12 Nutrition, Food Insecurity, and Occupational
Performance
13 Oral Health for Aging Adults
14 Pharmacology, Pharmacy, and the Aging
Adult: Implications for Occupational
Therapy
SECTION III Age-Related Psychosocial
Changes and Gerontological Occupational
Therapy
15 Neurology and Cognition in Aging and
Everyday Life
16 Cognitive Impairment, Dementia, and
Occupational Therapy Intervention
17 Aging Adults and Mental Health: Engaging
in Meaningful Occupations
18 Spirituality, Resilience, and Aging
19 Diverse Understandings of ‘Successful
Aging’
SECTION IV The Functional Environment of
Aging Adults and Gerontological Occupational
Therapy
20 The Physical Environment and Aging
21 Driving and Transportation: Aging
Drivers
22 Assistive Technology: Supports for Aging
Adults
23 Family, Friends, and Social Contexts in
Later Life
24 Arts, Humanities, and Occupational Therapy
With Older People: An Aesthetic Lens on
Practice
SECTION V Continuum of Care and
Gerontological Occupational Therapy
25 Health-Care Systems and Services
Overview
26 The Role of Occupational Therapy in
Primary Care
27 The Role of Occupational Therapy in Acute
and Post-Acute Care With Aging Adults
28 Residential and Skilled Care
29 Home: An Evolving Context for Health
Care
SECTION VI Trends and Innovations in Care
for Aging Adults
30 Intraprofessional and Interprofessional
Processes in Gerontological Care
31 Occupational Therapists, Social Change
and Social Transformation Through
Occupation
32 Building Age-Inclusive Communities
33 The Future of Gerontological Occupational
Therapy
Glossary
Index