Abstract
Functional activities training is a major focus of occupational therapy (OT) for older adults with disabilities. Though this training involves therapist teaching and client learning, authors in the OT and rehabilitation literature do not routinely talk about functional training from a learning theory perspective. Focusing on the learning aspects of treatment is particularly important for this population since older adults frequently have difficulty with learning due to diagnostic and age-related changes in their sensory and central nervous system processing abilities. This paper presents a learning, information processing approach to functional activity evaluation and training that can help therapists increase the effectiveness of their functional skills training for older adults.
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