This one-day workshop will build the competency of occupational therapists regarding what to assess and how, as well as how to overcome physical access barriers by matching home modification solutions to the needs of aging and older adults, and their care partners.

This online workshop will provide an overview of key considerations of assessing and understanding the impact of postural asymmetries to prepare an equipment prescription for clients of any age. Live session dates: May 29 and 30, 2025 from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (ET)

This webinar will explore the fundamentals of pelvic health, the occupational therapist’s role in pelvic health, and help you identify assessment and treatment approaches. Further topics include the connection between sexuality counselling and pelvic health, and help to identify collaboration opportunities with other practitioners in pelvic health.

This webinar will discuss the changes that occur with aging can impact occupational possibilities by imposing additional demands on the person’s occupational participation, ultimately challenging their ability to age in place. Lifestyle, social connections, safety factors, and accessibility factors may hinder or facilitate access to and opportunities for occupation in the kitchen. In addition, this webinar will explore how the kitchen design can contribute to limiting independence. Considering ergonomics, task zones, and gerontological design, occupational therapists can address these factors through kitchen modification to improve the safety and efficacy of occupational possibilities in the kitchen.

This webinar will discuss the changes that occur with aging can impact occupational possibilities by imposing additional demands on the person’s occupational participation, ultimately challenging their ability to age in place. Lifestyle, social connections, safety factors, and accessibility factors may hinder or facilitate access to and opportunities for occupation in the kitchen. In addition, this webinar will explore how the kitchen design can contribute to limiting independence. Considering ergonomics, task zones, and gerontological design, occupational therapists can address these factors through kitchen modification to improve the safety and efficacy of occupational possibilities in the kitchen.

Ce webinaire décrira la pertinence des interventions sensorielle en contexte de troubles neurocognitifs. Les étapes d’aménagement d’espace sensoriel (choix du local, matériel, formation et utilisation optimale), ainsi que les facilitateurs et les obstacles à l’implantation d’un espace sensoriel en milieu d’hébergement seront abordés.

This webinar illustrates how listening to individuals with dementia and learning from their repetitive questions is key. This webinar introduces the current client living with dementia as an expert by experience. The presenters will explore how careful observation and listening, during even the briefest encounter, are keys to finding vital clues to supporting their well-being.

This webinar will provide an overview of the presenter's work to translate the research evidence around reablement in dementia into practice so that people living in dementia in the community may have better access to these service in the real-world. First, an overview of reablement for people with dementia will be presented. Next, a suite of open access resources designed to support the design, delivery, and evaluation of reablement programs for people living with dementia will be introduced. Finally, ongoing work into how these resources can be implemented within the existing community services for older adults will be described.

This webinar will provide occupational therapists with an overview of self-stigma and explore the impact stigma can have on clients who experience chronic pain. Pain neuroscience education will be discussed when utilized in practice alongside other evidence-based interventions to improve occupational performance and potentially reduce self-stigma for clients with chronic pain. Clinical scenarios will be discussed to provide clear examples of how occupational therapists can implement strategies in practice.

In this webinar, an overview of the Danish low vision services "Better light, better living" will be presented, including the lighting assessment and intervention and the results from the pilot study. The research collaboration and its outcomes will be discussed, and an overview of current work will be shared. Danish examples such as the "N-Lited" and "The role of lighting when vision changes" projects will illustrate how to utilize architectural and lighting-design practices to improve quality of life and empower people with low vision and people with changing vision due to age.