Moving Toward Vision 2025
Amy Reid and Peyton Peaches
Monday, April 6, 2020
What is Occupational Therapy?
AOTA Vision 2025 Pillars
Have you ever found yourself spending days on end at home, with nothing to do?
Whether you want useful ideas for self care, working from home, crisis schooling the kids, leisure activities, or more, OT can help.
Occupations are things you do - everyday activities that people occupy their time with.
Participation in occupations helps people stay active as well as physically and mentally healthy.
Occupational Therapists:
Accessible
Occupational therapists promote principles of universal design, and are trained to employ adaptive strategies and modify environments to improve accessibility and performance of clients.
Leaders
Occupational therapists are influential leaders in strengths-based, client-centered care and in advocacy for their clients and their profession.
Can adapt the environment to support performance
Advocate for accessibility and occupational justice
Prevent disability for targeted populations
Work with patients and families to promote success in everyday life
As an inclusive profession, occupational therapy maximizes health, well-being, and quality of life for all people, populations, and communities through effective solutions that facilitate participation in everyday living.
Support people in the various jobs of living
Help people of all ages
Are uniquely trained to help people anywhere, any time
Help people regain, develop or master ways of doing their daily activities
Promote health, wellness, and quality of life
Equity, Inclusion, Diversity
Occupational therapists provide individualized and culturally sensitive services to diverse populations of clients, with goals of addressing issues of occupational injustice.
Collaborative
Occupational therapists strive to build rapport with clients and their families in order to holistically understand the variety of roles and interrelated contexts in which they live.
Effective
Occupational therapists enable patients' achievement of optimal outcomes through evidence-based assessments and interventions that are cost effective.
(AOTA, 2014)
(AOTA, 2020a).
Challenges with the COVID-19 Pandemic
References
Opportunities Moving Forward
- Those who don't understand full scope of OT
- Limited access to health care
- Technology barriers w/ telehealth
- Society poorly prepared to combat the pandemic
- Shelter In Place Orders
- Roles, habits and routines being disrupted
- Limited access to leisure activities/locations
- Social Isolation
- Self-Care and Mental Health Maintenance
- Financial Insecurity
- Economic Instability
American Occupational Therapy Association. (2014). Occupational therapy practice framework: Domain and process. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 68(Suppl. 1), S1–S48. http://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2014.682006
AOTA. (2020a). AOTA unveils vision 2025. AOTA. https://www.aota.org/AboutAOTA/vision-2025.aspx
AOTA. (2020b). Congress passes the Coronavirus, Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. https://www.aota.org Advocacy-Policy/Congressional-Affairs/Legislative-Issues-Update/2020/Congress-passes-coronavirus-aid-relief-economic-security-Act
Rogers, A. T., Bai, G., Lavin, R. A., & Anderson, G. F. (2017). Higher hospital spending on occupational therapy is associated with lower readmission rates. Medical Care Research and Review, 74(6), 668–686. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077558716666981
- Practitioners advocate to provide services for respiratory patients
- Evidence that OT positively impacts readmission rates for patients w/ pneumonia (Rogers et al., 2017)
- Promote OT as a valuable profession to general public to make OT a household name
- States waiving licensing and scope of practice restrictions
- CARES Act supports the economy and health care providers (AOTA, 2020)
- $2.2 trillion
- Telehealth service expansion in home health, high deductible, and CMS populations
- PPE production & National Stockpile expansion
- Waives the 3 hour rule in PAC settings
- Businesses are developing systems that allow working from home
- Ergonomics
- Time management
- Prioritization of meaningful roles and life/work balance
- Increase opportunities in Behavioral Health settings