Encounters between older adults and occupational therapists during the assistive technology application process.

CONCLUSION: Older adults express their needs in different ways. When the older adults' expression of needs does not correspond with the service provision system's conditions of eligibility, the occupational therapists act as mediators, by translating experienced needs so that they are expressed in a way that corresponds to the expression of the eligibility criteria. PMID: 30663465 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy - Category: Occupational Health Tags: Scand J Occup Ther Source Type: research