OCTH 614 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Alienation, Community Practice
18 Dec 2020
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Shift from timparitment to sporting participation in context. Shift from medical to social/ community models of care. Otpf prepares us for community practice that is holistic. More people will experience chronic condition than acute. Community practice holistic and one is likely to encounter a client with multiple, complex conditions. Loss can be sudden, gradual, permanent, total or anticipated. There can be age- related changes in function which are experiences as losses. Sport related, not being able to perform at the same speed. People can lose external objects such as their home. Maybe because they cannot take care of themselves. Getting cars taken away because of age and mental illness. Loss of health affects people"s engagement in occupations/ relationships/ valued roles. Limited participation in activities that bring pleasure or sense of achievement. Might have seen themselves with a lot of power or strength and they are not this way anymore. Caregivers often lose parts of themselves to the role of caregiver.
