2007 Press Releases
Future Trends in Occupational Therapy
18.10.2007
How the quality of life for the elderly can be improved will be the one of the topics for discussion when over 400 delegates, including 130 occupational therapy students from across Europe, gather at UCC today (October 18th 2007).
18.10.2007
How the quality of life for the elderly can be improved will be the one of the topics for discussion when over 400 delegates, including 130 occupational therapy students from across Europe, gather at UCC today (October 18th 2007).
Organised by UCC's Department of Occupational Therapy, the 13th meeting of the European Network of Occupational Therapists in Higher Education (ENOTHE) conference runs from October 18th-20th in Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, College Road.
Among the distinguished panel of speakers are Dr Florence Clark and Dr Jeanne Jackson (University of Southern California). Along with Gail Mountain (Sheffield Hallam University), they will present papers on the Well Elderly study at the conference. The landmark Well Elderly Study (USC) reaffirmed the principles in the field of occupational therapy and science that engaging in tasks that had meaning and allowed control "improves elderly health related quality of life and reduces health related costs". This has led to a programme known as the "Lifestyle Redesign Programme".
Over the last few years, occupational therapy researchers and practitioners from across Europe have been working to adopt the programme for a European context. This has led to the development of an EU wide project to develop culturally appropriate lifestyle intervention manuals in each of the participating countries, with the process involving older people and practitioners, and leading to a number of products for use in education and practice.
This research will be used to underpin teaching modules within European occupational therapy education and be implemented in the clinical setting to promote comparative study on the use of lifestyle redesign for older people across Europe.
Other topics for presentation include issues on multicultural practice and education, ethics and equality in the new accession states and service user's representation in education and service provision.
There is an exciting student programme where occupational therapy students across Europe have the opportunity to present projects that they have implemented along the theme of "equal opportunities in partnership with marginalised groups". These will be formatted into a CD Rom to encourage people to learn about occupational therapy practice with diverse groups across Europe and to become familiar with best practice that exists or potentially can be implemented.
Funding for the conference has been received through the Socrates Project, The International Section, Department of Education & Science, Ireland and the Association of Occupational Therapists in Ireland. See http://www.enothe.hva.nl/meet/ac07/programme.htm
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Among the distinguished panel of speakers are Dr Florence Clark and Dr Jeanne Jackson (University of Southern California). Along with Gail Mountain (Sheffield Hallam University), they will present papers on the Well Elderly study at the conference. The landmark Well Elderly Study (USC) reaffirmed the principles in the field of occupational therapy and science that engaging in tasks that had meaning and allowed control "improves elderly health related quality of life and reduces health related costs". This has led to a programme known as the "Lifestyle Redesign Programme".
Over the last few years, occupational therapy researchers and practitioners from across Europe have been working to adopt the programme for a European context. This has led to the development of an EU wide project to develop culturally appropriate lifestyle intervention manuals in each of the participating countries, with the process involving older people and practitioners, and leading to a number of products for use in education and practice.
This research will be used to underpin teaching modules within European occupational therapy education and be implemented in the clinical setting to promote comparative study on the use of lifestyle redesign for older people across Europe.
Other topics for presentation include issues on multicultural practice and education, ethics and equality in the new accession states and service user's representation in education and service provision.
There is an exciting student programme where occupational therapy students across Europe have the opportunity to present projects that they have implemented along the theme of "equal opportunities in partnership with marginalised groups". These will be formatted into a CD Rom to encourage people to learn about occupational therapy practice with diverse groups across Europe and to become familiar with best practice that exists or potentially can be implemented.
Funding for the conference has been received through the Socrates Project, The International Section, Department of Education & Science, Ireland and the Association of Occupational Therapists in Ireland. See http://www.enothe.hva.nl/meet/ac07/programme.htm
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