Occupational Therapy & Diabetes Management

Explore how occupational therapy supports diabetes self-management by addressing health literacy, social determinants, and seven self-care behaviors through client-centered, holistic interventions that promote meaningful occupations.

This literature review explains how occupational therapy supports diabetes management by promoting engagement in meaningful activities to boost motivation, self-efficacy, and occupational balance, while addressing distress and self-management.

Occupational therapy can advance diabetes management through client-centered, holistic services, focusing on meaningful activities, self-management skills, and reducing distress, while aligning with Vision 2025 pillars of accessibility, collaboration, and inclusion.

Use the person, environment, occupation, performance (pop) model to understand how diabetes affects daily tasks and performance, guiding interventions and emphasizing meaningful occupations for self-management.

The capstone connects occupational therapy to diabetes management, advancing professional responsibility, collaborative community engagement, occupation across the lifespan, and professional identity, while sharing resources and an aota continuing education article.

Engage in meaningful occupations to support health, wellness, and quality of life through occupational therapy and diabetes management, while objective 1 guides evidence-based practice and a weekly Instagram education page.

Develop advocacy and ethical behavior to influence positive change in diabetes care through occupational therapy. Create educational handouts for physicians and diabetes educators to illustrate OT's role in self-management.

Develop a diabetes management toolkit for occupational therapy with assessments, occupation-based interventions, and handouts to support occupational therapists, health care professionals, and individuals with diabetes.

Advance diabetes self-management and education through an occupational therapy article on the role of oat, highlighting collaboration, drafting, feedback, and submission to Aota for publication in OT Practice magazine.

Complete a short quiz to test your knowledge and assess the course's targeted learning objectives. Retake the quiz as many times as you would like, then review all the questions.

Review quiz answers on diabetes support resources, confirming diabetes online communities as the best option, and explain how occupational therapy assesses needs and adapts tasks to support management and health.

Explore the references, listed in alphabetical order, that guided the capstone project in this course; a downloadable reference page is available in the lecture resources.

Express gratitude to mentors, colleagues, and family who supported the capstone on the role of occupational therapy in diabetes self-management and the course.