Elizabeth Casson Memorial Lecture 2024: The time is now, building a social movement to demonstrate the value of occupation.

A memorial lecture calling on occupational therapists to build a collective social movement.

No research, no patients, no outcomes reported.

What this paper is

This is the 2024 Elizabeth Casson Memorial Lecture, a keynote address calling on occupational therapists to build a collective social movement to increase recognition of the profession. It reflects on the history of occupational therapy, discusses the concept of social leadership, and describes the early development of a health promotion intervention called EmpowerAge (manual in progress, scoping review being written up, acceptability testing planned for the following June). It reports no patients, no intervention delivered, no outcomes, and no data. There is nothing here to change your practice on.

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