Occupational Therapy with Aging Adults: Promoting Quality of Life Through Collaborative Practice

Look no further for the book that provides the information essential for successful practice in the rapidly growing field of gerontological occupational therapy! Occupational Therapy with Aging Adults is a new, comprehensive text edited by OT and gerontological experts Karen Frank Barney and Margaret Perkinson that takes a unique interdisciplinary and collaborative approach in covering every major aspects of geriatric gerontological occupational therapy practice. With 30 chapters written by 70 eminent leaders in gerontology and OT, this book covers the entire continuum of care for the aging population along with special considerations for this rapidly growing demographic. This innovative text also covers topical issues spanning the areas of ethical approaches to treatment; nutrition and oral health concerns; pharmacological issues; low vision interventions; assistive technology supports; and more to ensure readers are well versed in every aspect of this key practice area.

• UNIQUE! Intraprofessional and interprofessional approach to intervention emphasizes working holistically and collaboratively in serving older adults.
• Case examples help you learn to apply new information to actual patient situations.
• Questions at the end of each chapter can be used for discussion or other learning applications.
• Chapter on evidence-based practice discusses how to incorporate evidence into the clinical setting.
• Chapter on ethics provides a deeper understanding of how to address challenging ethical dilemmas.
• UNIQUE! Chapter on the wide range of physiological changes among the aging patient population highlights related occupational performance issues.
• UNIQUE! Chapter on oral health explores the challenges faced by older adults.

Karen Frank Barney, PhD, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, Professor Emerita; AOTF Development & Scholarship Committees; Founder, Transformative Justice Initiative & OT Transition and Integration Services; Chair, 2004-2013 Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy; Geriatric Education Center Faculty, 1990-2013; Interim Director, Prison Education Program, 2013-2015; Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA

Margaret A. Perkinson, PhD, FGSA, FAGHE, FSfAA, Past Director, Center on Aging, University of Hawaii, USA; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, Springer Nature; Founding Faculty Member, NAPA (National Association for the Practice of Anthropology) – OT Field School in Antigua, Guatemala; past President, Association for Anthropology and Gerontology (AAGE); past Executive Board Committee Member and Treasurer, Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE).