Advocacy

SC4-Occupational Therapy and Advocacy for Increased Access to Home Modifications: A Non-traditional Capstone Experience

Presenters: Hannah Brock

Description: This session will focus on describing a doctoral capstone experience that promoted advocacy for the role of occupational therapy services in the home modification process to a group of stakeholders within the building industry. The capstone experience centered upon cross-sector collaboration with a national advocacy coalition comprised of various professions in the housing, technology and economic sectors. The capstone also involved the creation of materials that facilitated potential legislative and policy development to promote accessible and affordable housing for middle-income older adults in the U.S. Networking opportunities were also pursued with use of an AOTA expert consultant in order to educate non-OT stakeholders on the value of including OTs in the entire process from legislative action to service delivery to program evaluation.