Everyday activities are used as therapeutic tools to increase independence and live life to its fullest by achieving goals, gaining skills, staying as healthy as possible, maintaining/building independence, and participating in everyday activities meaningful to you.

WHO WOULD BENEFIT FROM OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY INTERVENTION?
develop, maintain, restore, and prevent the loss of daily life skills and function

DECLINE IN ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING (including all appropriate adaptive equipment/assistive devices)

• Bathing/showering
• Toileting/toilet hygiene
• Dressing
• Eating/feeding (anatomical/environmental)
• Functional mobility
• Personal hygiene/grooming
• Personal device care (hearing aids/glasses/orthotics/walkers/wheelchairs, etc)
• Sexuality

DECLINE IN INSTRUMENTAL ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING (including all appropriate adaptive equipment/assistive devices)

• Communication management
• Driving/community mobility
• Financial management
• Health management/maintenance
• Disease Management/Medication management
• Home establishment/maintenance
• Meal preparation and clean-up
• Religious/spiritual activities and expression
• SAFETY, SAFETY AWARENESS and emergency maintenance
• Home Safety Evaluation and Adaptation(s)
• Shopping
• Care of pets

EDUCATION

• Formal education participation
• Informal personal educational needs, interests, participation

SPECIFIC AND GLOBAL MENTAL FUNCTIONAL DEFICITS

• Higher-level cognition
• Attention/memory
• Orientation
• Energy and drive

PSYCHOSOCIAL IMPLICATIONS

• Relationship between individuals mental and emotional well-being and the environment
• Environmental evaluation as it relates to safety, access, and occupational participation

NEUROMUSCULOSKELETAL AND MOVEMENT-RELATED FUNCTIONAL DEFICITS

• Joint mobility
• Joint stability

SENSORY FUNCTIONAL DEFICITS

• Hypersensitivities/Hypo-sensitivities and associated behaviors
• Visual, hearing, vestibular, taste, smell, proprioceptive, touch, pain, sensitivity

CARDIOVASCULAR AND RESPIRATORY SYSTEM FUNCTIONAL DEFICITS

• Maintenance
• Physical endurance, aerobic capacity, stamina, fatigue

SKIN AND RELATED STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS

• Wounds/healing

DECREASED PHYSICAL FUNCTION

DECREASED FUNCTIONAL MOBILITY

FALLS PREVENTION

MUSCLE/MOVEMENT FUNCTIONS

MOTOR SKILLS

PROCESSING SKILLS

• Comprehension
• Listening
• Memory
• Organization

HABITS, ROUTINES, ROLES

CONTEXT

PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTS/ ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES

POOR SLEEP HYGIENE

• Rest
• Sleep preparation and routines
• Sleep participation

COMPROMISED HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE (HRQOL)

ANXIETY/DEPRESSION/STRESS

DECREASED ABILITY TO COPE

LIFESTYLE CHANGES/ LOSS OF IDENTITY

OCCUPATIONAL DEPRIVATION

CHANGE IN FAMILY AND FRIENDSHIPS

WORK

• Employment interests/pursuits
• Employment seeking/acquisition
• Job performance/accommodations
• Retirement preparation/adjustment
• Volunteer explorations/participation

DECREASED LEISURE PARTICIPATION

• Leisure exploration/participation

DECREASED COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION

• Community
• Family
• Peers, friend

UNDEFINED DECREASED INDEPENDENCE, PARTICIPATION, FUNCTION