Occupational therapy health and wellness programming for a client living with cancer
Polo, K. M., Baxter, M. F., & Wallis, N. (2022). Occupational therapy health and wellness programming for a client living with cancer. SIS Quarterly Practice Connections, 7(2), 27–30.
Cancer and cancer treatments can poorly affect performance of daily activities and quality of life during and after treatment for persons living with and beyond cancer (Neo et al., 2017). Authors of a systematic review found that 36.7% to 54.6% of persons living with and beyond cancer reported having disabilities related to performance in basic ADLs and IADLs after cancer treatments (Neo et al., 2017). Some of the common cancer-related side effects that present barriers to performance are cancer-related fatigue, sleep disturbances, cancer-related cognitive impairments, and stress (Baxter et al., 2017).
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