Chapter 15
A main role of occupational therapy in ergonomics focuses on this.
What is reduction in musculoskeletal injury risk?
A justice that recognizes occupational rights to inclusive participation in everyday occupations for all persons in society, regardless of age, ability, gender, social class, or other differences.
What is Occupational Justice?
This population is projected to double in size by 2030.
Who are adults 65 years and older?
Occupational therapy first got involved in disaster response following this major historical event.
This technology allows OTPs to develop a specialized piece of adaptive equipment or splint.
What is 3D printing?
The varied size and shape of the human body becomes a hurdle when equipment is designed using this.
What is anthropometic data?
Individuals who have been incarcerated and mandated to attend programing with little opportunity for choice on topic or content can lead to this.
What is Occupational Deprivation?
The process of developing and enacting a customized routine of health promoting and meaningful daily activities, including changes that one wants to make .
What is Lifestyle Redesign?
This approach seeks to ensure the community has the capacity to address a broad range of emergencies.
What is an all-hazards approach?
Futurism or Futurist thinking includes these three principles.
What are interconnectedness, importance of time, and power of ideas?
When someone is injured at work and has concerns with returning to work this can simulate the duties of a job to measure abilities.
What is a functional capacity evaluation?
A group of people with similar characteristics who are less accepted by the dominant population(s) and are pushed and confined to the periphery of society.
What is a marginalized population?
Lifestyle Redesign includes 4 core concepts, name one.
What is:
Occupation is life itself
Occupation can create new visions of possible lives
Occupation has a curative effect on physical and mental health
Occupation has a place in preventative care
This government agency plays a significant role in disaster preparedness, recovery, and response.
What is the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)?
A smart home is an example of this type of technology.
What is Ambient intelligence?
In ergonomics, measurement of cognitive workload in a workplace setting involves assessing this component.
What is executive functioning?
The steps involved in this Framework include: Recognizing raising consciousness about injustice, engaging collaboratively with partners, agreeing on a plan, strategize actions, supporting implementation, and continuous evaluation.
What is the Participatory Occupational Justice Framework (POJF)?
The initial study of Lifestyle Redesign, this emphasized the importance of a thorough needs assessment.
What is the Well Elderly Study?
The US Public Health Service has deployed these professionals to provide disaster support in facilities for older adults with special needs (limited mobility, etc).
Who are OTs?
Occupational therapy practitioners can provide foster care intervention and these three levels.
What is intensive, targeted, and universal?
Name two Universal Design Principles.
What are:
Equitable Use
Flexibility in Use
Simple and Intuitive Use
Perceptible Information
Tolerance for Error
Low Physical Effort
Size and Space for Approach and Use
The average length of time it can take for resettlement to occur for refugees.
What is 26 years?
This theory looks at the world in terms of inter-relatedness and interdependence of all events. Functions, communities, systems are connected and a change in one impacts all. Each is a part of a whole, the whole is a part of a larger whole.
What is Dynamic Systems Theory?
An Occupational therapy Practitioner would most likely take on this formal role when participating in federal emergency response action.
What is the Community Emergency Response Teams (CERTs)
An individual who chooses to try a new service, technology, or approach early on in implementation/roll out.
What is an early adopter?