Occupational Therapists

With their unique educational preparation and holistic, client-centred focus on the domains of the individual (physical, cognitive, affective), his/her environment and his/her function with the aim of improving the overall health of the individual, occupational therapists are ideal interprofessional team mates for professionals working in Primary Healthcare Teams. With a core focus on enabling engagement in everyday living, occupational therapy is ideally positioned in the community, in primary care - where everyday living occurs. Occupational therapists will bring a focused attention to how patients’ health problems or challenges impact their capacity to manage safely, as independently as possible and with dignity in their home and community for both the short term and the long term.  To learn more about Occupational Therapists in FHTs and other primary healthcare models, click here.

Links

Ontario Society of Occupational Therapists

Manitoba Society of Occupational Therapists

College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario

Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy

Resources

Integrating Occupational Therapists into Ontario's Family Health Teams - recommendations from OSOT

Occupational Therapists in Primary Healthcare - position paper MSOT

Integrating Occupational Therapists into Family Health Teams - overview OSOT

Essential Competencies of practice of occupational therapists in Canada - article CJOT

Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy