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Senior Wellness: What is occupational therapy?

Occupational therapists are health professionals who work with people of all ages to help them be better able to accomplish the tasks of everyday life.

Occupational therapy can play a large role in helping patients recover, learn, or develop the skills they need to live and work in their daily life.

It allows them to focus on useful things that will help them with the simple and complex pieces of their day-to-day life. Those can include caring for oneself, work, volunteering and activities involved in a hobby.

Occupational therapists are health professionals who work with people of all ages to meet those goals. Part of their job is to help a patient adapt themselves and their environment to their ability level. They will look at many different aspects of daily life, like bathing, getting dressed or picking things up from the ground.

Often they will suggest modifications to a home to make things easier for the patient.

An occupational therapist can evaluate how a home is set up and make changes to help make things easier. That includes changing where things are located in the kitchen, recommending a hand rail in the bathroom or bedroom, or changing the height of the bed to make it easier to get in and out of it.

You can learn more about Occupational Therapists and how they can help you or someone you love by visiting Porter Hills.

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