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to R: VHCC Occupational Therapy Team Cindy Bowers, COTA; Tammy
Moyar, COTA;
Kathy Osterfeld, OT; Mallory Pleiman, OT; and Renae
Borchers, COTA.
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Versailles Health Care Center
Occupational Therapy
helps individuals live life to its fullest
Versailles Health Care Center is celebrating April as Occupational
Therapy Month. Occupational therapy enables people of all ages
live life to its fullest by helping them promote health, prevent—or
live better with—injury, illness, or disability. It is a practice
deeply rooted in science and is evidence-based, meaning that the plan
designed for each individual is supported by data, experience, and
“best practices” that have been developed and proven over time.
Occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants focus on
“doing” whatever occupations or activities are meaningful to the
individual. It is occupational therapy’s purpose to get beyond problems
to the solutions that assure living life to its fullest. These
solutions may be adaptations for how to do a task, changes to the
surroundings, or helping individuals to alter their own behaviors.
When working with an occupational therapy practitioner, strategies and
modifications are customized for each individual to resolve problems,
improve function, and support everyday living activities. The goal is
to maximize potential. Through these therapeutic approaches,
occupational therapy helps individuals design their lives, develop
needed skills, adjust their environments (e.g., home, school, or work)
and build health-promoting habits and routines that will allow them to
thrive.
By taking the full picture into account—a person’s psychological,
physical, emotional, and social makeup as well as their
environment—occupational therapy assists clients to do the following:
Achieve goals
Function at the highest possible level
Concentrate on what matters most to them
Maintain or rebuild their independence
Participate in daily activities that they need or want to do
Founded in 1917, the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)
represents the interests and concerns of more than 140,000 occupational
therapists, assistants and students nationwide. The Association
educates the public and advances the profession of occupational therapy
by providing resources, setting standards including accreditations and
serving as an advocate to improve health care. Based in Bethesda, Md.,
AOTA’s major programs and activities are directed toward promoting the
professional development of its members and assuring consumer access to
quality services so patients can maximize their individual potential.
For more information, go to www.aota.org.
The Occupational Therapy Team at Versailles Health Care Center work
together to help their patients improve their activities of daily
living. The Rehab Clinic at Versailles Health Care Center has one
Occupational Therapist on staff, Kathy Osterfeld, as well as three
Certified Occupational Therapist Assistants, Sarah Birt, Renae
Borchers, and Cindy Bowers. If you are interested in learning
more about the occupational therapy services at The Rehab Clinic at
Versailles Health Care Center, call 937-526-0130 or visit
www.versailleshealthcare.com.
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