Acknowledgement
We would like to thank Jelka Jansa, Occupational Therapist, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia, for her contributions to ths section.
We would like to acknowledge the use of information taken from the Parkinson’s Disease Society Singapore publication ‘Parkinson’s News' (Aug-Sept 2007) in compiling this information.
Occupational therapy promotes good health and wellbeing by helping people regain their independence and adapt to disability. The motor, cognitive and other impairments associated with Parkinson’s are addressed by providing special equipment and through the modification of the patient’s environment.
An occupational therapist can enhance quality of life by removing barriers that prevent independence and limit every day, routine activities that are normally taken for granted.
Despite there being over 26,000 qualified occupational therapists working in the UK, helping more than one million people, 88% of Brits don’t know what an occupational therapist is or does (according to research by the British Association of Occupational Therapists, November 2006).
Movement.
Brain functions related to thought processes such as as thinking, reasoning and judgement, remembering, imagining, learning, intuition, sense and perception, and understanding.
