Occupational Therapy

For those who may ask the reason I am doing a locum instead of a permanent OT position, here it is. I will be going to La Trobe University, Australia to obtain my degree conversion in July. Hence, this explains the locum part.
Anyway, just after lunch, I attended a lecture by MOH Visiting Expert in [...]

Alhamdulillah. I am now a locum occupational therapist in an acute hospital! For the past 2 days, I have been going through orientation in the geriatrics/general medicine wards. 3 days of orientation till tomorrow and henceforth, I’ll be on my own. No supervisors to countercheck what are my findings and documentations. Actually, I have been [...]

I came across a video in Youtube with regards to increase in falls in elderly with stroke. I saw therapists facilitating the elderly to walk. And this makes me think of my future job. Yes… I have observed through my clinical and personal experiences that most elderly do not know their risk of falls. This [...]

Recently, there has been many news about re-employing women and older workers. Hence, this is a good news for me as my group will be presenting a ‘proposal’ on re-hiring older workers as part of the assessment of one of the modules.
The following links are related to the online news with regards to the topic [...]

According to a coursemate, her mother was reading a local Chinese newspaper and it was reported that a study done by a local university here, NUS, showed that Cooking is more effective than Mahjong as a cognitive activity for elderly to maintain their cognitive skills.
Rate of cognitive decline for elderly who still participated in at least [...]