Person, Environment and OCCUPATION. #ROARdementia
INTRODUCTION
Occupational therapists work to enable people and communities to live their best lives. They work with people of all ages, focusing on the ways in which time spent influences health and well-being, this could be playing sport, through going to work and or a caring for others. But perhaps most importantly, occupational therapists focus on the areas which are identified by people as most important to them, working further to support and enable the person to lead a purposeful, fulfilling life. Irrespective of practice setting, occupational therapists have a vital role to play in public health promotion, including dementia risk reduction across the life span. More widely the profession are experts in advocating the right to occupation (what we want, need, and must do as part of our everyday lives) to empower people living with dementia, and those who support them, to maintain and sustain a positive life for longer.
This framed our ambition to come together as co-editors of a new publication “Occupational therapy and dementia: promoting inclusion and opportunities for people living with dementia”. Over forty co-authors have contributed to this book and their generosity and willingness to share their expertise from both within and beyond the profession of occupational therapy has been overwhelming.
Book content aims to share our ambition to inspire occupational therapists of today and tomorrow, to be future leaders, innovators, researchers, and rights-based practitioners in dementia. It does so by highlighting examples of ground-breaking work by occupational therapists and inter-professional colleagues, that we hope will inspire, challenge and encourage readers to be a rights-based practitioner. Each chapter in the textbook offers examples of how and in what way occupational therapists (potentially others also), can respond to and reflect on, a human rights-based approach to dementia practice. To highlight ideas and examples of content included in the book, we have organised three free webinars, which follow the structure of the text; person, environment and occupation.
WEBINAR SERIES: OCCUPATION 7TH May at 3pm BST.
You can join us by click on the link at 3pm on the 7th May 2024.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://plymouth.zoom.us/j/95750732131?pwd=OTMyRVBaMUhmbTI0eGJtNnFjbGR4UT09
At our third webinar you will meet all four editors and hear from authors who contributed to:
Chapter 13. The Pool Activity Level (PAL) Instrument (Jackie Pool, Lix Copley and Sophie Dickinson)
Chapter 14. Occupational Therapy Home Based Memory Rehabilitation (OTHBMR) (Alison McKean, Mary McGrath and Gillian Gowran)
Chapter 16. Working with People with Dementia and their Caregivers (Caroline Kate Keefe, Alison McKean, Jill Cigliana, Kari Burch and Catherine Verrier Piersol)
Chapter 17. Challenges and Opportunities in Occupational Therapy Research (Jennifer Wenborn and Alison Warren)
Keep in Touch
Fiona, Alison, Elaine, and Lyn can be found through Twitter, now known as X. If interested in further supporting our conversation with occupational therapists, consider using the #ROARdementia acronym to reach out via X/twitter or Instagram.
We hope you can join us on the 7th May 2024 at 3pm.
Let's Talk about Dementia 
Thank you. I missed the two former webinars. Are they recorded to view anywhere? Many thanks Anne Topping
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We are not able to record the webinars and hope you can join us in May, Elaine