Feasibility of using the Cognitive Orientation to daily Occupational Performance in a population of Danish stroke survivors: Adaptation and study protocol.

Background: A need was identified for an occupational therapy intervention for stroke survivors in a Danish municipal healthcare setting with emphasis on its ability to transfer and generalise what is learned in occupational therapy to everyday life post therapy. Being a possible candidate, the Cognitive Orientation to daily Occupational Performance (CO-OP) approach needed to be adapted to the target group and context, and its feasibility needed examination regarding reach, dose, intervention components, fidelity, perceived value, benefits, harms, and potential outcomes.

Aim: To adapt the CO-OP to a Danish healthcare setting and present a protocol for examining its feasibility.

A Parkinson care-coordinator may make a difference: A scoping review on multi-sectoral integrated care initiatives for people living with Parkinson's disease and their caregivers.

Objective: To identify multi-sectoral integrated care initiatives for people with Parkinson's disease and caregivers.

Method: Following the Matrix Method we created a synthesis of literature across methodological approaches. The search was conducted in four databases until June 2022, and included studies focusing on multi-sectoral integrated care initiatives, and how they helped people with Parkinson's disease and caregivers in everyday living.

What Does It Take for Research to Be Rehabilitation Research?

Six recommendations to facilitate rehabilitation research and supplement existing research practices were identified. Rehabilitation practice requires research addressing different long-term multi-faceted needs and perspectives of end users, including service users, professionals, politicians, and administrators. Research in rehabilitation should therefore integrate different research traditions and methods.

Strengthening problem-solving skills through occupational therapy to improve older adults' occupational performance - A systematic review.

Evidence supports the role of occupational therapy (OT) for older adults, and therapeutic use of problem solving may provide a way to improve older adult's occupational performance. To assess the effectiveness and describe the contents of OT interventions aimed at improving older adults' occupational performance by strengthening their problem-solving skills. This systematic review followed the phases recommended by the Cochrane Collaboration.

Exploring health and social services in Denmark, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom for the development of Parkinson's care pathways. A document analysis.

People with Parkinson's disease (PD) may find it difficult to identify and access the wide number of services they need and are entitled to along their complex PD journey. As part of the project OPTIM-PARK - Optimisation of community resources and systems of support to enhance the process of living with Parkinson's Disease, document analysis was developed to create overviews of existing resources and systems of support in Denmark, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom. Documents on community resources, policies, guidelines and professional recommendations were the main sources of information.

Occupational therapists' competencies utilised in Danish job centres.

Background: Twenty-nine out of 94 Danish job centres employ occupational therapists (OTs) and numbers are increasing. Occupational therapy (OT) vocational rehabilitations are diverse, and a more specific description of OT practice within this field is lacking.

Aims: To explore how OTs employed at Danish job centres describe their own competencies and what they perceive that their colleagues from other professions request from them.

Can strengthening older adults' problem-solving skills through occupational therapy improve their occupational performance? A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Older adults' occupational performance is challenged due to chronic health conditions, aging processes, and deteriorating functioning. Thus, their occupational performance cannot be expected to remain stable in the long term after an occupational therapy intervention. Older adults may therefore need to strengthen their problem-solving skills during occupational therapy not only to solve current occupational performance issues but also to maintain their improvements and deal with new such issues a later point in time.

Intensive client-centred occupational therapy in the home improves older adults' occupational performance. Results from a Danish randomized controlled trial.

Background: There is growing interest in enabling older adults' occupational performance. We tested whether 11 weeks of intensive client-centred occupational therapy (ICC-OT) was superior to usual practice in improving the occupational performance of home-dwelling older adults.

Methods: An assessor-masked randomized controlled trial among adults 60 + with chronic health issues, who received or applied for homecare services.

What are the short-term and long-term effects of occupation-focused and occupation-based occupational therapy in the home on older adults' occupational performance? A systematic review.

Background: There is a lack of evidence-based knowledge about the effectiveness of home-based OT for older adults aimed at improving occupational performance by practicing activities and tasks.

Aim: This review synthesizes and discusses evidence for the effectiveness of occupation-focused and occupation-based OT for older adults at home.

Material And Methods: Peer-reviewed quantitative papers were included.

Progress and prediction of occupational performance in women with distal radius fractures: a one-year follow-up.

Abstract To describe the occupational performance and pain during the first year after a distal radius fracture, an observational follow-up study was performed among 37 mainly elderly Danish women. They were assessed at cast removal and reassessed at three and 12 months post-injury with COPM, DASH, and validated questions on pain. The number of performance problems fell from median 18 at cast removal to median 3 at 12 months.

Occupational performance, pain, and global quality of life in women with upper extremity fractures.

To examine pain, occupational performance problems, and quality of life (QoL) and possible associations between these variables, 41 elderly women with acute pain due to a fracture of the upper extremity were assessed with COPM, DASH, validated questions on pain, and a global question on QoL. The participants reported 802 performance problems: 38% within self-care, 52% within productivity, and 10% within leisure. Strength demanding bilateral activities in cleaning, hygiene, and cooking were most frequently reported.