Negotiating occupation : How older people make sense around of the concept of "occupation"
Background: The concept of occupation has been widely discussed and developed theoretically in occupational science and occupational therapy. Objectives: To explore how older community living adults themselves describe and negotiate the meaning and definition of “occupation”. Methods: Twenty-seven p...
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ftumeauniv:oai:DiVA.org:umu-167392 2023-10-09T21:54:32+02:00 Negotiating occupation : How older people make sense around of the concept of "occupation" Lundgren, Anna Sofia Atler, Karen Nilsson, Ingeborg 2020 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-167392 https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2020.1731845 eng eng Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper Umeå universitet, Enheten för demografi och åldrandeforskning (CEDAR) Umeå universitet, Institutionen för samhällsmedicin och rehabilitering Journal of Occupational Science, 1442-7591, 2020, 27:2, s. 236-250 orcid:0000-0002-8758-5704 orcid:0000-0002-8265-5769 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-167392 doi:10.1080/14427591.2020.1731845 ISI:000616285700009 Scopus 2-s2.0-85080858565 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Occupational science Older adult Terminology Discourse analysis Ethnology Etnologi Occupational Therapy Arbetsterapi Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2020 ftumeauniv https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2020.1731845 2023-09-22T14:01:18Z Background: The concept of occupation has been widely discussed and developed theoretically in occupational science and occupational therapy. Objectives: To explore how older community living adults themselves describe and negotiate the meaning and definition of “occupation”. Methods: Twenty-seven persons in northern Sweden (67-95 years old) participated in workshops with audio-recorded discussions. The transcribed discussions were analyzed using discourse theory. Findings: Discussions started with efforts to establish a initial definition of occupation focusing on what kinds of practices could be seen as occupations. Second, there were significant efforts to value and grade different occupations, described as evaluative definitions. Last, participants resonated around the disadvantages of stable definitions of occupations, and put forth reflexive arguments for more relativizing definitions. Conclusion: While physical occupations were tellable, social and mental occupations seemed to require a language that was less familiar. Therefore, interventions that suggest participants to engage in social or mental occupations need to provide a language that makes non-physical occupations comprehensible as occupations. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden Umeå University: Publications (DiVA) Journal of Occupational Science 27 2 236 250 |
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Background: The concept of occupation has been widely discussed and developed theoretically in occupational science and occupational therapy. Objectives: To explore how older community living adults themselves describe and negotiate the meaning and definition of “occupation”. Methods: Twenty-seven persons in northern Sweden (67-95 years old) participated in workshops with audio-recorded discussions. The transcribed discussions were analyzed using discourse theory. Findings: Discussions started with efforts to establish a initial definition of occupation focusing on what kinds of practices could be seen as occupations. Second, there were significant efforts to value and grade different occupations, described as evaluative definitions. Last, participants resonated around the disadvantages of stable definitions of occupations, and put forth reflexive arguments for more relativizing definitions. Conclusion: While physical occupations were tellable, social and mental occupations seemed to require a language that was less familiar. Therefore, interventions that suggest participants to engage in social or mental occupations need to provide a language that makes non-physical occupations comprehensible as occupations. |
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Negotiating occupation : How older people make sense around of the concept of "occupation" |
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