Occupational Engagement and Adaptation in Adults with Dementia: A Preliminary Investigation
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Abstract
AbstractThis qualitative study examined the occupations of individuals with dementia, the motives they have for this engagement, and the occupational adaptation they make in response to their memory difficulties. Eight individuals with memory difficulties and their caregivers participated in in-depth, semi-structured interviews. The types of activities that individuals with memory difficulties do and stopped doing were described, as well as their motives for doing or stopping. The findings show that caregivers initiated most of the activities. Several participants exhibited defensiveness around various occupations. In addition, participants and caregivers indicated that they perform many occupations together. The results indicate individuals with memory difficulties do find purpose in occupational engagement and find ways to adapt occupations. Occupational therapists ought to facilitate meaningful occupations when working with individuals with memory difficulties.KEYWORDS: Occupational engagementoccupational adaptationdementiaoccupational meaning Additional informationNotes on contributorsSandra HobsonJennifer R. Johnson was a graduate student in the School of Occupational Therapy, Texas Woman's University, Houston, TX at the time of this study. She is currently employed as an Occupational Therapist at Touro Infirmary in New Orleans, LADebra Stewart is Lecturer, School of Rehabilitation Science, McMaster University and staff therapist at Erinoak Centre, Missis-sauga, Ontario. She is currently completing a MSc (Design, Measurement and Evaluation) at McMaster University.Ronald L. Mace (deceased, June 29, 1998) was also affiliated with The Center for Universal Design, School of Design, North Carolina University.Lois Rosage and Geraldine Shaw are Occupational Therapist Consultants who provide evaluations for the housing programs at the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging.Debbie Rand is Occupational Therapist, Beit Rivka Geriatric Rehabilitation Hospital, Petach Tikva, Israel. She completed this study in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Science degree in Occupational Therapy, School of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her mailing address is 50 Heh B'Eyar Street, Apartment 5, Rosh Ha'Ayin, Israel, 48056.Maureen McKenna is a Licensed Physical Therapist and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California. Her Current position is: Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy, Wheeling Jesuit University, 316 Washington Avenue, Wheeling, WV 26003.Heather Lambert was funded in part by a Health Canada NHRDP Fellowship, a REPAR Fellowship, a doctoral bursary from the Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Quebec, and a Canadian Occupational Therapy Foundation-Royal Canadian Legion Fellowship in Gerontology.Trish Wielandt was supported by a University of Queensland Postgraduate Research Scholarship (UQPRS).Dr. Leigh Tooth was supported by a NHMRC Fellowship (#997032) while some of this research was undertaken.J. D. "Herb" Herbert is Occupational Therapist, Rocky Mountain Menders LLC, 363 Pioneer Road, Lyons, CO 80540. At the time of this study, he was a graduate student, Department of Occupational Therapy, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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