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For OT month, I am celebrating occupations!<\/p>\nFor OT month, I am celebrating occupations!<\/p>\n
Occupational therapy improves patient access to the occupations and their ability to participate in occupations.<\/p>\n
What does OT mean by occupations?\u00a0 Any skill a patient needs for the job of living is an occupation!<\/p>\n
Adaptive Sports – Buttoning –\u00a0 Cleaning –\u00a0 Driving –\u00a0 Food Prep –\u00a0 Eating – Gardening –\u00a0 Handyman Skills \u00a0\u00a0Ice Skating –\u00a0 Jigsaw Puzzles –\u00a0 Knitting \u2013Lovemaking – Managing Meds \u2013 Nature Access – Online Shopping Personal Hygiene – Quilting – Reading\u00a0 – Sleeping- Transfers – Uno & Cards – Visiting Friends – Writing- Xiangqi & Games – Yoga – Zippers<\/p>\n
OT goals begin with the occupations important to the patient and result in those occupations being more manageable.\u00a0 The occupational therapy happens in between:<\/p>\n
OT provides a patient-centered path to strengthen skills for the job of living.<\/p>\n
The volume and variety of occupations is what makes OT such a fun, creative and dynamic healthcare profession.\u00a0 So celebrate OT month by focusing on the outcomes \u2013 the skills needed to live life to the fullest – achieved with the help of occupational therapy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For OT month, I am celebrating occupations! Occupational therapy improves patient access to the occupations and their ability to participate in occupations. What does OT mean by occupations?\u00a0 Any skill a patient needs for the job of living is an occupation! Adaptive Sports – Buttoning –\u00a0 Cleaning –\u00a0 Driving –\u00a0…<\/p>\n Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-i-love-ot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Happy-OT-Month.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7825,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823\/revisions\/7825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}