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The telehealth program of occupational therapy among older people: an up-to-date scoping review

BACKGROUND: The average life expectancy of older people is increasing, and most seniors desire to age at home and are capable of living independently. Occupational therapy (OT) is client-centered and uses patients’ meaningful activities, or occupations, as treatment methods, thus playing an importan...

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Autores principales: Ding, Jiangtao, Yang, Yulin, Wu, Xiao, Xiao, Boheng, Ma, Lihong, Xu, Yanwen
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Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9640899/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36344805
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40520-022-02291-w
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author Ding, Jiangtao
Yang, Yulin
Wu, Xiao
Xiao, Boheng
Ma, Lihong
Xu, Yanwen
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Wu, Xiao
Xiao, Boheng
Ma, Lihong
Xu, Yanwen
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description BACKGROUND: The average life expectancy of older people is increasing, and most seniors desire to age at home and are capable of living independently. Occupational therapy (OT) is client-centered and uses patients’ meaningful activities, or occupations, as treatment methods, thus playing an important role in later adulthood. Telemedicine removes the constraints of time and space, and the combination of OT and telemedicine can greatly improve medical efficiency and clinical effectiveness. AIMS: The purpose of this scoping review was to examine the scope and effectiveness of telehealth OT for older people. METHODS: This scoping review was conducted following the methodological framework proposed by Arksey and O’Malley. We searched the literature in five databases following the PICOS (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome, Study design) guideline, from inception to April 2022. Two trained reviewers independently retrieved, screened, and extracted data, and used a descriptive synthesizing approach to summarize the results. RESULTS: The initial search yielded 1249 studies from databases and manual searches, of which 20 were eligible and were included in the final review. A thematic analysis revealed five main themes related to telehealth OT: occupational assessment, occupational intervention, rehabilitation counseling, caregiver support, and activity monitoring. CONCLUSIONS: Telehealth OT has been used widely for older people, focusing primarily on occupational assessment and intervention provided conveniently for occupational therapists and older clients. In addition, telehealth OT can monitor patients’ activities and provide rehabilitation counseling and health education for the elderly and their caregivers, thus improving the security of their home life and the efficacy of OT. During the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth will be an effective alternative to face-to-face modalities. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40520-022-02291-w.
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spelling pubmed-96408992022-11-14 The telehealth program of occupational therapy among older people: an up-to-date scoping review Ding, Jiangtao Yang, Yulin Wu, Xiao Xiao, Boheng Ma, Lihong Xu, Yanwen Aging Clin Exp Res Review Article BACKGROUND: The average life expectancy of older people is increasing, and most seniors desire to age at home and are capable of living independently. Occupational therapy (OT) is client-centered and uses patients’ meaningful activities, or occupations, as treatment methods, thus playing an important role in later adulthood. Telemedicine removes the constraints of time and space, and the combination of OT and telemedicine can greatly improve medical efficiency and clinical effectiveness. AIMS: The purpose of this scoping review was to examine the scope and effectiveness of telehealth OT for older people. METHODS: This scoping review was conducted following the methodological framework proposed by Arksey and O’Malley. We searched the literature in five databases following the PICOS (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome, Study design) guideline, from inception to April 2022. Two trained reviewers independently retrieved, screened, and extracted data, and used a descriptive synthesizing approach to summarize the results. RESULTS: The initial search yielded 1249 studies from databases and manual searches, of which 20 were eligible and were included in the final review. A thematic analysis revealed five main themes related to telehealth OT: occupational assessment, occupational intervention, rehabilitation counseling, caregiver support, and activity monitoring. CONCLUSIONS: Telehealth OT has been used widely for older people, focusing primarily on occupational assessment and intervention provided conveniently for occupational therapists and older clients. In addition, telehealth OT can monitor patients’ activities and provide rehabilitation counseling and health education for the elderly and their caregivers, thus improving the security of their home life and the efficacy of OT. During the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth will be an effective alternative to face-to-face modalities. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40520-022-02291-w. Springer International Publishing 2022-11-08 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9640899/ /pubmed/36344805 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40520-022-02291-w Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Ding, Jiangtao
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Xiao, Boheng
Ma, Lihong
Xu, Yanwen
The telehealth program of occupational therapy among older people: an up-to-date scoping review
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title_short The telehealth program of occupational therapy among older people: an up-to-date scoping review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9640899/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36344805
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40520-022-02291-w
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