Productive Aging: An Occupational Perspective is a concise and
practical text that takes a fresh look at our rapidly expanding and
diverse older population. Recognizing the unique identity of each
older person, this text provides client-centered guidelines for
maximizing function, independence, and wellness. Productive Aging
also outlines self-management strategies for promoting
participation and engagement in productive occupations for the
older persons own continuing development, health, and well-being.
Productive Aging not only summarizes current evidence, but it looks
into the lives of forty productive agers who shared their personal
perspective with the authors as part of an original qualitative
study. These participant stories, often told in the participants
own words, describe how current theories of aging are applied in
the lives of older adults who are currently living the experience.
Older adults ages 60 to 98 describe the effective strategies they
used to manage their own aging process, to structure healthy
lifestyles and social connections, and to intentionally direct
their own productive occupations in satisfying and meaningful ways.
The results of this qualitative research study have led to a
grounded theory of Conditional Independence, which guides
occupational therapy approaches to productive aging in practice.
Authors Marilyn B. Cole and Dr. Karen C. Macdonald explore the six
productive occupations that researchers have identified as typical
of older adults today: self-management, home management,
volunteering, paid work, care giving, and lifelong learning. In
addition to summarizing current research and theories within each
occupation, concrete strategies and techniques relative to these
roles are detailed, with multiple examples, case studies, and
learning activities. Throughout Productive Aging, interviews with
experienced practitioners, administrators, and educators reveal
some of the implications of various trends and techniques. For
occupational therapists, descriptions of settings and types of
intervention are consistent with the latest version of AOTA's
Occupational Therapy Practice Framework, Third Edition. In addition
to promoting productive occupations within traditional
institutional and medical-based practice, occupational therapy
roles include that of consultant, educator, and advocate when
treating individuals, groups, and populations in home care,
organizational, and community settings. Special attention is given
to developing the ability to become an effective self-manager,
facilitating social participation, and maximizing clients applied
functional abilities. Productive Aging: An Occupational Perspective
is the perfect addition to the bookshelf of occupational therapy
students, faculty, and clinicians, as well as any health care
practitioner who would like to update his or her knowledge of the
aging individual within his or her current practice settings.
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