Benefits of OT During COVID-19 Pandemic

• World Federation of Occupational Therapists: Occupational Therapy Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic - The World Federation of Occupational Therapists asserts the important roles occupational therapists will play in working with people to develop strategies to facilitate continued access to their occupations. OTs understand that the capacity to engage in purposeful, meaningful occupations is a determinant for health and well-being.


• Occupational Therapy Intervention in COVID-19 - Presentation from All India Occupational Therapists Association.


• University of Pittsburgh: How Occupational Therapy Can Help You Stay on Track During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Using the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework, OT students describe why occupational therapy is useful during the COVID-19 pandemic.


• Alberta Health Services: Allied Health Skills to Support COVID-19 Across the Continuum (April 2020) - Overview of unique skills various allied health professions bring to supporting the response to COVID-19 pandemic.


• Karen Whalley Hammel’s Article: Engagement in Living During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Ensuring Occupational Disruption - Discusses and encourages application of what occupational therapists have learned from clients’ experiences to inform our understanding of resilience through times such as our current pandemic.


• Catherine Backman and Skye Barbic’s Article: Staying Happy While Staying Home: Lessons from Occupational Therapy - Human beings have a biological need to participate in meaningful activities every day. Now more than ever, Canadians need a new blueprint for their daily routines. Canada’s occupational therapists are experts in helping people of all ages do the things they want and need to do.


• Occupational therapy: The key to unlocking locked-up occupations during the COVID-19 pandemic - Kamalakannan, S., & Chakraborty, S. (2020). Wellcome open research, 5, 153.


• Outpatient Physical, Occupational, and Speech Therapy Synchronous Telemedicine: A Survey Study of Patient Satisfaction with Virtual Visits During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Tenforde, A. S., Borgstrom, H., Polich, G., Steere, H., Davis, I. S., Cotton, K., O'Donnell, M., & Silver, J. K. (2020). American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation, 99(11), 977–981.