How do they match: Occupational Therapists

  • Home Health Occupational Therapist
  • Independent Living Specialist

  • Assess, plan, and organize rehabilitative programs that help build or restore vocational, homemaking, and daily living skills, as well as general independence, to persons with disabilities or developmental delays. Use therapeutic techniques, adapt the individual's environment, teach skills, and modify specific tasks that present barriers to the individual.

  • Advise on health risks in the workplace or on health-related transition to retirement.
  • Develop and participate in health promotion programs, group activities, or discussions to promote client health, facilitate social adjustment, alleviate stress, and prevent physical or mental disability.
  • Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills, using computer programs.
  • Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.
  • Recommend changes in patients' work or living environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities.
  • Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental or physical capabilities.
  • Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients.

  • Advise communities or institutions regarding health or safety issues.
  • Collaborate with healthcare professionals to plan or provide treatment.
  • Design public or employee health programs.
  • Direct healthcare delivery programs.
  • Encourage patients or clients to develop life skills.
  • Evaluate patient functioning, capabilities, or health.
  • Provide health and wellness advice to patients, program participants, or caregivers.