Occupational Therapy: Care Programs, Factors, Roles, and Skills

Running head: OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY 1
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OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY 2
Question ONE
Deaths and serious ailments of a particular family member come with great psychological
and/or emotional side effects to the family members and to the person suffering as well. As a
result, effective care needs to be provided to the affected person with the aim of making them
feel even better.
According to the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), care must be
provided to these people (American Occupational Therapy Association, 2018). For instance, it
lays down several types of these care programs including the palliative care and hospice. In
definition, the palliative care focuses on aiding the ailing persons by preventing and/or treating
the side effects and the symptoms of the said disease. It, also, focuses on the support of a
person’s spiritual, emotional, practical, and social discomforts that arise out of the existence of
the ailment. This kind of care can be administered at the same time the treatment of the ailment
is being done. On the other hand, the hospice care is the care that is administered to a person
when there is a clear sign that the person will not benefit from the medical support and is going
to die any time soon. Thus, hospice care is, basically, care provided to the terminally ill people to
live a quality life until they die. In summary, the palliative care starts at diagnosis as well as the
treatment while hospice care starts after the treatment of the ailment has stopped and the ill
expected not to live past 6 months.
Question TWO
There are several factors that determine both care and quality of life in both the palliative
and hospice care for the sick people. Starting with the palliative care, factors such as the type of
palliative care facility, the age of the patient, admission to the hospital, and the screening of pain