HLTC17H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Settlement Movement, Occupational Therapy, Unthinkable
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Provides interventions that go beyond medical treatment re-establish individuals as productive and socially integrated citizens. Who: shift away from treating disease and pathology, toward reduction of impairments secondary to illness/injury to minimize disability and maximize independency. Evolution of rehabilitation and specific rehab professions: while the idea has been around for centuries it only began to take hold during the. First world war when so many injured soldiers needed to become re-established upon their return home. Rehab struggled for recognition between the wars perhaps because people thought there would never again be that type of need; another war being unthinkable. But of course the second world war came along, and the need was again apparent. There has always been a moral imperative about rehab; that it is not enough to keep people who are ill or injured alive, but that their lives must be worth living.
