August 2009 - Posts

What more could an OT have done?
August 31, 2009 5:17 PM by OTCM

An article in Aging Well Magazine 1 tells the story about an elderly woman named Margaret who, for nearly 8 years, managed to stay in her own home despite strenuous efforts to assign her to long-term-care (LTC) "before her time". The article describes Read More...

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Where's the OT advocacy in LTC?
August 24, 2009 4:08 PM by OTCM

I've seen several articles this year that make me wonder how many OTs working in Long Term Care (LTC) settings are incorporating advocacy into their daily practices. Advocacy is an integral part of OT practice in several domains and processes described Read More...

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(Not) In the Mood
August 17, 2009 5:25 PM by OTCM

I have tried to stay away from writing in this blog about the political mess masquerading as “health reform” efforts; but the media din has given me writer’s block on any other topic. Maybe I’m just intimidated by the spectacular capacity for fiction-writing Read More...

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[Open-faced] Sandwich Generation
August 10, 2009 5:25 PM by OTCM

I am one of millions of baby-boomers directly helping a parent deal with the challenges of aging. Probably unlike most of my cohorts, however, I am lucky to have a parent who isn’t in denial about her fading abilities. Additionally, my parents were never Read More...

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Adjectives-schmadjectives
August 3, 2009 4:31 PM by OTCM

If you see a work of art and then find out that the artist is "disabled", does that change your opinion about the art? I got to thinking about this question after I posted last week’s blog on "suffering". As you know, the word "disabled" has its controversies, Read More...

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