A Model for Quality of Life: Occupational Justice and Leisure Continuity for Nursing Home Residents

Engagement and social interaction in dementia care settings. A call for occupational and social justice

“…Older adults with dementia in long‐term care have reduced autonomy in what they do and how they spend their time. They are frequently deprived of the valued everyday occupations which promote not only their physical and mental health but also their identity through meaningful occupational roles (Causey‐Upton, ). Occupational justice supports the right of individuals to access valued occupations to support health and well‐being and states that healthcare professions are responsible for promoting this access by removing physical or social barriers that impede performance (Causey‐Upton, ).…”

“…Older adults with dementia in long-term care have reduced autonomy in what they do and how they spend their time. They are frequently deprived of the valued everyday occupations which promote not only their physical and mental health but also their identity through meaningful occupational roles (Causey-Upton, 2015).…”

“…Occupational justice supports the right of individuals to access valued occupations to support health and well-being and states that healthcare professions are responsible for promoting this access by removing physical or social barriers that impede performance (Causey-Upton, 2015). Baldwin and Greason (2016), in reviewing increasing interest in the concept of citizenship in dementia care practice, look beyond citizenship as a status or right bestowed on or claimed by individuals.…”

Altering the boundaries of everyday life in a nursing home context

“…Her familiarity with the role could be seen as reconnecting with embodied dimensions in a social context. This way of understanding could be related to habits [67] referring to how the social is both incorporated and constitutive of our identity and subjectivity [15]. Habits have been referred as having a practical sense, as a knowhow sense of enacting in familiar social situations.…”

“…Older adults' engagement in occupations is an important issue in the development of quality standards and the person-centred approach [1][2][3] within nursing home (NH) and has been a clear focus in aging research [4][5][6][7][8], occupational therapy research [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16], policy [17][18][19] and in clinical practices. It is well known that older adults' engagement in occupations contributes positively to quality of life and meaning making [13,[20][21][22][23][24][25].…”