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Developing A Website Of Occupation-Based Resources For Healthy Aging At Dominican University Of California, David Aizpuru, Kevin Urquhart Brown, Beverly Posqdas Deguzman, Cournety Brooke Mcintosh
Developing A Website Of Occupation-Based Resources For Healthy Aging At Dominican University Of California, David Aizpuru, Kevin Urquhart Brown, Beverly Posqdas Deguzman, Cournety Brooke Mcintosh
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The purpose of this project was to create a website to promote healthy aging at Dominican University of California. The website contains relevant information to promote healthy aging and publicizes Dominican University of California’s activities and programs centered around healthy aging. The design of this thesis is a virtual context project that focuses on occupation based resources for healthy aging and highlights the role of occupational therapy in health aging. The healthy aging website is currently located on the homepage of the Occupational Therapy Department of Dominican University of California website. The need for a Dominican University of California healthy …
An Inventory Of Evidence-Based Health And Wellness Assessments For Community-Dwelling Older Adults, Elliott David Brent, Matthew Jordan Carlson
An Inventory Of Evidence-Based Health And Wellness Assessments For Community-Dwelling Older Adults, Elliott David Brent, Matthew Jordan Carlson
Dissertations, Masters Theses, Capstones, and Culminating Projects
It is estimated that by 2020 older adults will makeup one fifth of California's population. Many of these older adults are living in the community and are maintaining their independence. In order to help the older adults to maintain their independence, occupational therapists are turning to the newly emerged wellness promotion model to guide their practice. The wellness promotion model is a holistic model that addresses six domains of wellness (intellectual, spiritual, physical, social, emotional, and vocational). One of the concerns in using this model to guide the emerging practice area in occupational therapy is that there is little information …
Understanding And Preventing Falls: Perspectives Of First Responders And Older Adults, Monica Fernandez, Anita Diep Hin, Chelsea C. Prado
Understanding And Preventing Falls: Perspectives Of First Responders And Older Adults, Monica Fernandez, Anita Diep Hin, Chelsea C. Prado
Dissertations, Masters Theses, Capstones, and Culminating Projects
OBJECTIVE. The objectives of this study were to identify characteristics of older adult fallers in a local community in Marin County, California, examine the perceptions of older adults who contacted a local fire district after a fall, examine the perceptions of first responders from a local fire district regarding falls and fall prevention, explore the degree of depression in older adult fallers, and identify strategies to prevent falls in older adults.
METHODS. This research study was an exploratory and retrospective descriptive study that utilized a mixed-method design. The researchers coded narratives from Patient Care Report (PCRs) provided by the fire …