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Daily activities in a diverse future - challenges for a new generation of occupational therapists

Workshop (RES)

Karin Johansson¹,Lisa Ekstam¹, Liz Petersson², Kjersti Vik ³, Annika Öman¹, Ann-Helene Patoemlla¹, Gunilla Eriksson¹, Ingela Petersson Lie¹, Susanne Guidetti¹

¹⁾Karolinska Institutet, Sweden ²⁾University of Illinois at Chicago, United States ³⁾Sør-Trøndelag University College, Norway

This paper is based on the argument that the concept of "daily activities" provides a unique resource to approach diversity in a future society. Daily activities are unique to each person with respect to content and meaning, and are therefore diverse among individuals and life situation. Understanding and supporting daily activities requires tools that are sensitive to expressions of diversity.

Discussions since 2010 within a group of graduates from the Karolinska Institutet PhD program will serve as the starting point for this presentatation, which aims to explore how the concept of daily activities can be expressed and formulated into tools that manage to grasp the diversity of daily activities.

At closure of the presentation the participants will have reflected on expressions of diversity in everyday activities and upon and developed ideas about how diversity in daily activities can be approached in OT research, education and practice.