"Occupational therapy is a profession concerned with promoting health and well being through occupation. The primary goal of occupational therapy is to enable people to participate in their activities of everyday life. Occupational therapists achieve this outcome by enabling people to do things that will enhance their ability to participate or by modifying the environment to better support participation.
Occupational therapists have a broad education that equips them with skills and knowledge to work collaboratively with individuals or groups of people who have an impairment of body structure or function due to a health condition, and who experience barriers to participation."
World Federation of Occupational Therapists
Waitemata DHB Occupational Therapy provides services in the following areas:
- Acute Allied Health
- Home and Older Adults Service
- Community Home Health Care
- Paediatrics
- Mental Health Services