occupational deprivation

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occupational deprivation

Prolonged restriction from participation in necessary or meaningful activities due to circumstances outside the individual's control. Geographic isolation, incarceration, disability, or social exclusion may contribute to such circumstances.

See also: deprivation

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A related concept, occupational deprivation, is defined as being prevented from doing necessary and meaningful occupations by external restrictions (Whiteford, 2000).

An occupational perspective of childhood poverty

External restrictions cause occupational deprivation (Whiteford, 2010), and Magasi and Hammel (2009) found the participants' decisions to enter the nursing home were forced and influenced by the interaction of disability and health as well as social and economic factors.

An elective course exploring occupational justice through occupational storytelling and story making

Informed by research pointing to occupational deprivation amongst older people in residential care, and the resultant depression and psychomotor retardation (Mozely, 2001), Grace O'Sullivan, occupational therapist in an aged care facility, took action.

Occupational science: adding value to occupational therapy

Their leisure participation included passive roles (Nelson & Gordon-Larsen, 2006), living life through others (Hocking, 2000), and potentially experiencing occupational deprivation (Wilcock, 2006).

A study of engagement in active and passive roles in casual leisure occupations

Conversely, occupational deprivation occurs when an individual lacks opportunities, be they self or environmentally imposed, to engage in meaningful activity (Wilcock, 1998).

"Putting the occupation back in occupational therapy:" a survey of occupational therapy practitioners' use of gardening as an intervention

Such restriction results in occupational deprivation, occupational imbalance and occupational alienation (see Table 2).

Evaluating person centred care and Dementia Care Mapping in a psychogeriatric hospital in New Zealand: a pilot study