A Voice in the OT Wilderness

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Saturday night’s alright for fightin’ November 9, 2009 8:10 PM by OTCM: Back in August, I blogged about my mother and her attitudes about death. Recently, we had the opportunity – if you can call it that – to examine the subtleties of her perspective, and how it is reflected in her advanced directive. Mom was taken to the Read More...
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ADL activity: baking a file into a cake September 8, 2009 4:04 PM by OTCM: As I mentioned in my 8/24/09 post, some people consider being placed in a nursing home (long-term care/LTC facility) tantamount to a life sentence in a prison. The stereotype is powerful enough to make some people view even assisted living facilities Read More...
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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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