Universal Design

    TED talk was really interesting to me. He started off joking because of the female interpreter and really set a light tone to discuss something that is really serious and something that impacts everyone every day, especially as OT practitioners. I really liked how he said that everyone has a disability at some point in their life; whether it be temporary or long term, everyone experiences this at some point. Universal design is a concept that is important for everyone to be included and everyone be able to easily access and experience things. He talked about the automatic door being a universal design. To be completely honest, I had never thought about an automatic door being implemented as something to make it more accessible for everyone. I know I should have recognized this, but I have grown up seeing them everywhere and it never occurred to me that this was designed to be more inclusive.
    I listened to the podcast about home health with occupational therapy. It was interesting to me because she was talking about how she was bored in her SNF setting and home health allowed her to use more of her own creativity. She mentioned how she loved being able to actually see the set up of where they are and where they needed help, like with showering. I actually did observation hours in a home health setting, and I was able to go to different client's homes and watch the OT work within the home. I was not a big fan of this setting myself, but it was interesting to listen to her talk about how you could put a bar of soap in a pantyhose leg and tie it to a safety bar so if they drop the soap, they don't have to bend down all the way to get it. It was interesting to see another person's view on this setting and have a positive outlook on it compared to my outlook which was not a very positive one.