ILOTA Continuing Education Course
 Title: Delivering Distinct Value: Supporting Self-Management of Chronic Conditions

Presenter: Carol Siebert, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA
Date: August 8, 2015
Time: 7:30 am registration, 8:00 am course begins
CEU’s: 7 CEU’s
Location: Downers Grove, IL
Course Fee: Members $ 140;  Non members $240
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Abstract:
Chronic conditions are the major cause of illness, disability, and death in the United States. In the US, half of all adults and one in six children live with at least one chronic condition. Chronic conditions also account for 75% of healthcare spending. Self-management -which means management of symptoms as well as lifestyle, has a natural connection to OT. Yet few OT practitioners address chronic disease self-management.

This workshop provides a broad overview of chronic conditions and self-management. These topics are then analyzed in terms of occupation, as well as the occupational therapy expertise and interventions which contribute to effective self-management. Common conditions and intervention issues specific to attendees’ practice settings are discussed. Communicating OT’s role is addressed in terms of documentation as well as interactions with both patients and professionals. In the final segment of the workshop, attendees have the opportunity to apply their learning to address opportunities and challenges for OT to address chronic condition in their specific practice setting.

Learning Objectives:
1. Identify chronic conditions common in adult practice settings.
2. Explain the relationship between chronic condition management and daily activities.
3. Distinguish between skill-building and habit-modifying interventions.
4. Relevant to the attendee’s specific practice setting, effectively communicate the role of occupational therapy in chronic condition management.
Workshop Outline

Chronic condition overview
· High priority chronic conditions
· Personal, economic and social costs of chronic conditions
· Management of chronic conditions
· Self-reflection activity

Self-management
· What is self-management?
· Roles of practitioner and patient/client
· Self-management as ADLs and IADLs
· Self-management as habits & routines

Habits & Routines: Keys to Self-Management
· Small group brainstorming activity
· Habits & routines: an OT legacy
· Habits & routines: the evidence
· Readiness & capacity to change
Application to practice: Skills . . . and Habits
· Self-reflective exercise
· Assessment: skill, habit and readiness to change
· Targeting outcomes
· Measuring habit change
· Intervention: modifying habits-the evidence & the practical
· Small group exercise

Reframing Occupational Therapy
· Team based care
· Communicating OT’s role in habits and routines
· Communicating OT’s role in self-management
· Setting-specific issues
Walking our talk
· Application to individual attendee’s practice (work in pairs)
· Identify one personal and one practice change goal
· Develop a plan
· Establish communication plan
· Report out to large group on goals and learning

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