How Occupational Therapists Teach Older Patients To Use Bathing and Dressing Devices in Rehabilitation
Author(s) -
Ruth Schemm,
Laura N. Gitlin
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
american journal of occupational therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.646
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1943-7676
pISSN - 0272-9490
DOI - 10.5014/ajot.52.4.276
Subject(s) - bathing , medicine , rehabilitation , physical therapy , session (web analytics) , occupational therapy , functional independence measure , activities of daily living , affect (linguistics) , assistive device , physical medicine and rehabilitation , psychology , communication , pathology , world wide web , computer science
This article describes the methods occupational therapists use to teach bathing and dressing device use to older patients in rehabilitation programs. The relationship of three patient characteristics to five aspects of assistive device instruction was examined.
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