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- Title
Unpaid Caregiving and Aging in Place in the United States: Advancing the Value of Occupational Therapy.
- Authors
Fields, Beth; Rodakowski, Juleen; Jewell, Vanessa D.; Arthanat, Sajay; Park, Melissa; Piersol, Catherine Verrier; Schepens Niemiec, Stacey L.; Womack, Jennifer; Mroz, Tracy M.
- Abstract
Unpaid caregivers are often expected to help family members or friends overcome activity limitations and participation restrictions to successfully age in place. Caregivers assume multiple responsibilities, such as managing their own physical and psychosocial needs and navigating a complex health care system, and many feel ill equipped to fulfill the necessary health care responsibilities for their care recipients. Underprepared caregivers may cause poor outcomes for care recipients. Federal and state policy proposals call attention to the need to better support caregivers, especially as their numbers increase. Occupational therapy practitioners are well positioned to effectively engage caregivers as they navigate the health care system. The occupational therapy process looks broadly at the functional abilities, environmental contexts, and occupational demands that play a pivotal role in successful aging in place for clients and better outcomes for their caregivers. Now is the time to define occupational therapy's distinct value to this area. The authors articulate the distinct value of occupational therapy in supporting state and federal policy focused on caregiving and aging in place.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MEDICAL policy laws; HEALTH policy; SERVICES for caregivers; OCCUPATIONAL roles; TEAMS in the workplace; FUNCTIONAL status; HOME care services; STATE governments; MEDICAL care; OCCUPATIONAL therapy; JOB security; AGING; HEALTH care teams; FEDERAL government; TELEMEDICINE
- Publication
American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2021, Vol 75, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
0272-9490
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5014/ajot.2021.044735