Examining an occupational perspective in a rural Canadian age-friendly consultation process
| Autor: | Heidi Lauckner, Robin Stadnyk |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Occupational therapy
Male Rural Population medicine.medical_specialty Process (engineering) Consultation process Interviews as Topic Nursing Occupational Therapy Activities of Daily Living Relevance (law) Medicine Humans Program Development Community development Qualitative Research Aged business.industry Information Dissemination Communication Perspective (graphical) Community Participation Professional-Patient Relations Focus Groups Middle Aged Focus group Nova Scotia Work (electrical) Models Organizational Environment Design Female Independent Living business Program Evaluation |
| Zdroj: | Australian occupational therapy journal. 61(6) |
| ISSN: | 1440-1630 |
| Popis: | Background/aim The age-friendly community movement is a community-level approach to promoting seniors’ health that has yet to be thoroughly examined from an occupational perspective. Through the application of the Canadian Practice Process Framework to an age-friendly consultation process, the authors examined how age-friendly community consultations may provide strategies for occupational therapists to strengthen their work with communities. Methods A consultation with a rural Canadian community was guided by the Age-Friendly Rural/Remote Communities Initiative. Focus groups were held with 35 older adults to identify age-friendly features of the community. Twenty key informants who provide services to seniors were also interviewed individually. Following the community consultation, we examined the relationship between the age-friendly community consultation process and occupational therapy community development practice processes using the Canadian Practice Process Framework. Results The steps of the consultation process paralleled the occupational therapy practice process, with occupational issues implicitly identified in the age-friendly consultation. The age-friendly consultation process emphasised the importance of collaborative partnerships and the need for occupational therapists to adopt a facilitative rather than leadership role. Skills that enable occupation were used throughout this age-friendly consultation. Conclusions The study suggests that the process of this age-friendly community consultation has relevance to occupational therapy theory and practice, and can provide a useful framework for collaborative consultative processes when working with communities. |
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