Promoting meaningful activities by occupational therapy in elderly care in Belgium: the ProMOTE intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Older people want to age in place. Despite advancing functional limitations and their desire of aging in place, they are not always faithful to therapy that maintains independence and promotes safety. Occupational therapists can facilitate aging in place. Occupational therapy is defined as the therapeutic use of everyday life occupations with persons, groups, or populations for the purpose of enhancing or enabling participation.

Aim

To describe the content a high-adherence-to-therapy and evidence-based occupational therapy intervention to optimize functional performance and social participation of home-based physically frail older adults and wellbeing of their informal caregiver, and the research activities undertaken to design this intervention.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: De Coninck L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10953191 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature