Caregiving strategies that support participation in everyday life
Exploratory and descriptive studies on caregiving instrumental daily activities to elderly couples.
The overall aim of this study is to examine factors that support participation in instrumental activities of daily living for older couples. These factors include actions by the caregiver, contextual factors, and support provided through external resources. In particular, the influences and support from occupational therapy staff across the spectrum of traditional services in the United States are of interest in this research.
These factors will be examined from the perspective of those caregivers and care recipients, as well as occupational therapy practitioners working in settings that provide regular encounters with older adult caregivers. One particular area of instrumental action, community mobility, will be examined as an enabler of other forms of activity engagement in the instrumental sphere. The intention of this series of studies is to gain an increased understanding of various factors that should be considered by caregiver support networks in general and occupational therapists in particular to promote health, well-being and participation for cohorts where the primary caregivers are older adult couples.
Contributors to the project:
- Margareta Lilja, Professor Emerita of Occupational Therapy
- Gunilla Isaksson, Professor of Occupational Therapy
- Jennifer Womack, OT, MSc, PhD student (defended 2018).
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