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    Occupational Therapy in Old Stage

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    Occupational therapy aims to improve people's ability to perform daily activities. For geriatric patients, occupational therapists focus on increasing independence, mobility, and quality of life by reducing disabilities and feelings of impairment. Therapists prescribe assistive devices, provide sensory stimulation, and recommend purposeful activities to engage patients and address both physical and emotional needs, like in the case of Charles, a 75-year-old man who suffered several strokes and needs support with self-care. The intervention plan for Charles focuses on improving his motor functions, gait, and engagement in meaningful activities to aid his autonomy and mood.

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    Occupational therapy aims to improve people's ability to perform daily activities. For geriatric patients, occupational therapists focus on increasing independence, mobility, and quality of life by reducing disabilities and feelings of impairment. Therapists prescribe assistive devices, provide sensory stimulation, and recommend purposeful activities to engage patients and address both physical and emotional needs, like in the case of Charles, a 75-year-old man who suffered several strokes and needs support with self-care. The intervention plan for Charles focuses on improving his motor functions, gait, and engagement in meaningful activities to aid his autonomy and mood.

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    Occupational therapy aims to improve people's ability to perform daily activities. For geriatric patients, occupational therapists focus on increasing independence, mobility, and quality of life by reducing disabilities and feelings of impairment. Therapists prescribe assistive devices, provide sensory stimulation, and recommend purposeful activities to engage patients and address both physical and emotional needs, like in the case of Charles, a 75-year-old man who suffered several strokes and needs support with self-care. The intervention plan for Charles focuses on improving his motor functions, gait, and engagement in meaningful activities to aid his autonomy and mood.

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    Occupational therapy aims to improve people's ability to perform daily activities. For geriatric patients, occupational therapists focus on increasing independence, mobility, and quality of life by reducing disabilities and feelings of impairment. Therapists prescribe assistive devices, provide sensory stimulation, and recommend purposeful activities to engage patients and address both physical and emotional needs, like in the case of Charles, a 75-year-old man who suffered several strokes and needs support with self-care. The intervention plan for Charles focuses on improving his motor functions, gait, and engagement in meaningful activities to aid his autonomy and mood.

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    Role of the occupational therapist in old stage

    Occupational Therapy is a profession that is responsible for facilitating and improve


    people's performance in their daily activities, be movements activities of self-maintenance,
    work, study, sports, play or free time, intervenes with people from any age group who are
    in a situation of illness, disability or social vulnerability, in different environments
    according to the reality of each individual or group in question, influencing in the health,
    individual well-being and significance of each person.
    According to Farrera R (2000) and Rodriguez (2009), geriatrics is a relatively young
    science, dedicated to determining the preventive, therapeutic and social aspects of the
    elderly in health or illness, The occupational therapist and his role with geriatric patients
    focuses on:
    ● Increase biosocial balance.
    ● Increase the degree of independence in daily basic activity, reduce disabilities
    ● and teach how to use residual capacities.
    ● Increase joint mobility and muscle strength.
    ● Reduce feelings of disability.
    ● Improve Life Quality. (Rodríguez Díaz, O. 2009)
    ● Prescribe technical aids
    ● Sensory stimulation
    ● Ergotherapy
    Example:
    Charles is an adult over 75 years old; He has suffered five vascular brain accidents, due to
    which his motor and sensory functions are impaired.
    As a consequence Charles has hempirasia in his left body, He needs support from his
    children to bathe, dress, and walk. He has difficulties in balance and strength. Additionally,
    Charle’s routines are unstructured, it is difficult for him to carry out activities of interest;
    this causing which is going into depressive episodes
    The intervention from Occupational Therapy will focus on:
    1. Promote gross motor functions, functional and integral patterns; to improve
    autonomy in self-care activities.
    2. Strengthen gait pattern through proprioceptive sensory stimuli.
    3. Carry out ergotherapy activities in which the user can feel productive
    4. Carry out activities of interest which strengthen emotional skills.
    5. Make attachments in brushes, spoons or other elements, which facilitate
    independent self-care activities.
    Biography
    1. Carreño Maria E, Cañate Santiago, Delgado Wilder.2016. The occupational
    therapist and her role with geriatric patients. Vol 2 No.4. Ecuador.
    2. Masera Marta, Pavon Javier.2013. The occupational therapist and her role with
    geriatric patients. Vol 10 Num 18.Coruña España.

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