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Undergraduate Catalog 2009-2010 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2009-2010 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

OT 461 - (D) Occupational Therapy Practice IV: Geriatrics

3 cr.
(Prerequisites: OT 346, 347, 356, 460)An overview of frames of reference, evaluations, and interventions used to enhance elder’s well-being. Emphasis is placed on understanding the biopsychosocial changes and environmental contexts of elders. The ability to provide holistic and humanistic elder care is facilitated through lab simulations, completion of a program needs assessment, and via service learning. Two hours lecture/two hours lab per week and ten hours of service learning.