ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how the time-geographic diary method can engender new knowledge of aspects of everyday life situations that are otherwise difficult to capture, by diarists as well as by researchers and therapists. It considers how special challenges in everyday life influence the way disabled people live their lives. The chapter presents an overview of how everyday life can be studied by using the time-geographic diary method to seek underlying rules, routines and regulations, going beyond what can be observed and identifying constraints as well as desirable activities in order to increase participation for all in society, regardless of ability. The diary method has also been used to capture elderly men's physical activity patterns in everyday routines. The diaries illustrated how the everyday lives of the disabled students both differed from and resembled those of the non-disabled occupational therapy and physiotherapy students in the Scandinavian study by Alsaker et al.
