ABSTRACT
The impairment of short-term memory experienced in the early stages of dementia may lead to forgetting the names of familiar people. The Model of Human Occupation is founded on the belief that meaningful occupation is central to people well-being and that human occupation can best be understood as a dynamic system that involves: physical and social environments, skills, habituation, personal causation (motivation). The Assessment of Motor and Process Skills is designed to assess how an individual’s motor and process skills affect their ability to carry out activities of daily living. The chapter explores the impact of dementia on engagement in activity, the assessment of occupational performance and occupational therapy interventions. The Pool Activity Level Instrument closes the loop, as it were, by enabling the identification of the developmental level that a person with dementia is at and suggesting how activity can be structured to support continuing engagement in that activity.
