What Can OT do for you?

It is more than you think!

Occupational Therapy is called OT because we focus on occupations! Occupations are life activities that people or groups of people engage in during their day. Occupations are broken into different categories.

1. Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)

2. Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs)

3. Rest and Sleep

4. Education

5. Work

6. Play

7. Leisure

8. Social Participation

The week's occupation breakdown is focusing on Activities of Daily Living. ADLs include bathing/showering, toileting and toilet hygiene, dressing, swallowing/eating, feeding, functional mobility, personal device care, personal hygiene and grooming, and sexual activity.

Each of these areas are further broken down so that a occupational therapist can focus on the need or challenge an individual may face. Occupational therapists look at the entire task from beginning to end. This can range from gathering supplies for showering, transferring to/from the toilet, completing fasteners on clothing, manipulating food in your mouth, getting in and out of bed, cleaning glasses, brushing your teeth, or engaging in relational or reproductive needs. Occupational therapists have the training to help develop areas of need to get you engaged in daily life skills. WOW!!

Check out the OT practice framework link below for more details on each of these Activities of Daily Living.

OT-Practice-Framework-Table-1-Occupations.pdf

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