Mobile health applications for older people in Asia: protocol for a systematic review of end-user perceptions and recommendations.

Introduction: Mobile technology has revolutionised the way people interact with others and gain access to healthcare services. Given that cultural background is a strong moderator for technology penetration, this systematic review aims to examine end-user perceptions and design recommendations for mobile health applications among Asian older people.

Methods And Analysis: Five electronic databases (PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Medline and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials) will be searched until May 2025.

Missed Opportunities to Ease Suffering: An Explanatory Model of Occupational Therapy Utilization in End-of-Life Care.

With disease progression, a terminally ill person may experience loss of physical and cognitive skills required to perform everyday activities. Such functional loss can erode autonomy and cause existential suffering. Supported engagement in everyday activities may help terminally ill people stay involved in living and cope with dying.

Occupational adaptation as a social process for dementia care teams.

Background: Few studies have examined a group's collective experience of occupation using occupational therapy theoretical models. Dementia caregiving requires a diverse team of caregivers who learn and work together to resolve shared challenges. An Occupational Adaptation (OA) theory-based training program for dementia care teams was developed to better understand the team's adaptive process inherent in cooperative caregiving.

"You've Got to Do Something": Developing Occupational Therapists' Role in End-of-Life Care.

Occupational therapists support the occupational participation of people who are dying yet remain underutilized in end-of-life care. The purpose of this article was to explore how occupational therapists develop their role in end-of-life care to provide strategies to address underutilization. Using a grounded-theory method, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 21 occupational therapists.

Measuring the Efficacy of Occupational Therapy in End-of-Life Care: A Scoping Review.

Importance: Underutilization of hospice occupational therapy may be attributable to a lack of evidence on efficacy.

Objective: To conduct a scoping review of occupational therapy outcome studies to ascertain how efficacy is captured in the literature.

Data Sources: PubMed, CINAHL, MEDLINE, Scopus, Directory of Open Access Journals, Web of Science, OT Search, and Google Scholar.

Then and now: comparison of baseline breast cancer screening rates at 2 time intervals.

Background: Breast cancer is Asian American women's most frequently occurring cancer.

Methods: Asian American women completed breast cancer-related baseline surveys for 2 studies 5 years apart.

Results: Statistically significant and rapid improvements in knowledge and screening practices were seen between the 948 participants in the first study (1995) and the 1540 participants in the second study.