Occupational Therapist (Home Care and Community Based Care)

Clinical 1. Evaluations: The therapist evaluates primarily in the home setting. Information is gathered from the medical record, interview of the veteran and other appropriate people such as family and caregiver or other providers, observation, and standardized and non-standardized testing. The therapist evaluates: Areas of occupation: activities of daily living (ADL), instrumental activities of daily living (IADL), education, work, leisure, and social participation. Performance patterns: habits, routines, roles. Context(s): Cultural, physical environment, social, personal, spiritual, temporal, virtual. Activity demands: the kind of tools, space, social, timing, body functions and body structures that are required by the activity. Client factors: body functions and structures. These include mental, sensory, neuromuscular, cardiovascular, speech and skin functions, and the body structures that support those functions. Imbedded in bullets above are age related, gender identity related fa