Advancing Your Skills to Promote Aging in Place

Course overview

Aging in place is a preferred goal and outcome for older adults, health systems, and insurances. Due to changing trends in longevity, demographics, cost, and workforce availability, traditional approaches to aging in place cannot meet current and future needs. Through interventions that target the person-environment-occupation fit, occupational therapy offers a distinct approach that maximizes independence and safety for successful aging in place. Occupational therapy practitioners in all settings can increase their distinct value and role in promoting aging in place by understanding the common personal and environmental factors that pose as facilitators and barriers to aging in place. This course will help practitioners understand how to apply existing foundational knowledge of the person-environment-occupation fit to an evolving model of successful aging.