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inThe British Journal of Occupational Therapy > Vol. 85 Issue 4 (Avril 2019) . - p. 199-200

Titre :	Ageism and the valorization of independence: are they connected?
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Barry Trentham
Année de publication :	2019
Article en page(s) :	p. 199-200
Note générale :	doi.org/10.1177/0308022618814143
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Résumé :	Years ago, a very old and very engaged patient challenged my very young and very earnest occupational therapy thinking in a profound way. I continue to peel away the layered ageist and culturally laden assumptions that this learning experience revealed, particularly now, as I consider the links between ageism and occupational therapy’s pre-occupation with independence. Mrs Chen (not her real name) immigrated to Canada in her 80s from China. My initial assessment in the clinic, when she was 93 years old, indicated the need to ‘increase independence in ADL [activities of daily living]’. Not interested, she politely informed me that her children could look after that. She was interested, however, in ‘learning the computer’ so she could engage with her grandchildren. To my entrenched western value system, I interpreted this as a lack of concern for the burden this would add to her children’s already busy lives. Reinforcing my value perspective was the institutional and cultural pressure to focus on independence with basic activities of daily living (BADL). Computer literacy was not an institutionally sanctioned BADL.
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[article] Ageism and the valorization of independence: are they connected? [texte imprimé] / Barry Trentham . - 2019 . - p. 199-200.
doi.org/10.1177/0308022618814143
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in The British Journal of Occupational Therapy > Vol. 85 Issue 4 (Avril 2019) . - p. 199-200

Résumé :

Years ago, a very old and very engaged patient challenged my very young and very earnest occupational therapy thinking in a profound way. I continue to peel away the layered ageist and culturally laden assumptions that this learning experience revealed, particularly now, as I consider the links between ageism and occupational therapy’s pre-occupation with independence. Mrs Chen (not her real name) immigrated to Canada in her 80s from China. My initial assessment in the clinic, when she was 93 years old, indicated the need to ‘increase independence in ADL [activities of daily living]’. Not interested, she politely informed me that her children could look after that. She was interested, however, in ‘learning the computer’ so she could engage with her grandchildren. To my entrenched western value system, I interpreted this as a lack of concern for the burden this would add to her children’s already busy lives. Reinforcing my value perspective was the institutional and cultural pressure to focus on independence with basic activities of daily living (BADL). Computer literacy was not an institutionally sanctioned BADL.

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