Hanne Peoples

• MSc.OT, Ph.d.
• Researcher at University College Lillebaelt Odense Denmark

Background: Acquired Brain injury (ABI) causes ripples throughout the occupational and social fabric. It enters people's lives at a significant personal cost, encroaching on people's sense of self. Vocational rehabilitation is a viable venue to regain control of their life and support them in forming a new sense of self. From an occupational persp...

Worldwide, 50 million people are living with dementia. As more individuals develop dementia while still working, dementia will increasingly become a workplace issue and a societal concern. Interventions targeted at work retainment, can reduce, and postpone the loss of cognitive functioning following dementia. However, there is a small body of resea...

Introduction Living with dementia can be challenging, even more so for people diagnosed before age 65. Loss of identity is one of the main subjective consequences dementia poses at this stage in life due to the loss of social relations and daily activities. While a growing body of research is reporting the experienced impact of early-onset dementia...

Background Dementia has been labelled as a condition leading to ‘prescribed disengagement’ which negatively affects a person’s ability to remain an agentic citizen. Social citizenship has become a central focus within dementia studies and occupational science, with a view of people with dementia (PWD) as capable and active agents. However, PWD stil...

Introduction Cancer in advanced stages often results in a reduced ability to engage in occupations, which may influence quality of life. A growing number of people with advanced cancer receive palliative care at home and thus the home becomes the place where most of their everyday occupations occur. The purpose of this study was to explore, from an...

Objective This study aimed at exploring everyday activities of people with advanced cancer living at home: which everyday activities they perform; perceived and observed quality of performance of self‐care and household activities; which activities they would like to be able to perform; and determine any gender differences. Methods Outpatients (n...

Background: Occupational therapy-based interventions may help people with advanced cancer to live actively despite their illness. However, there is limited evidence concerning what kinds of content intervention should encompass, and how this should be done. Objective: To describe the development and content of an occupational therapy-based interven...

Introduction Within dementia care, there remains a general lack of coherence in evidence-based knowledge on issues of importance for subjective experiences of quality of life in people with dementia. The aim of the meta-aggregation was to investigate experiences related to quality of life in people with dementia living in institutional settings. M...

Background: Occupational therapy and occupational science are founded on the theoretical core assumption that occupation and quality of life (QoL) are closely related. However, such theoretical core assumptions must be supported through empirically based research. Objective: To investigate the association between QoL and occupation, here self-re...

Objective To explore whether people with advanced cancer who had assistive devices had higher or lower ADL ability and/or HRQoL than people with advanced cancer who did not have assistive devices. Methods A cross‐sectional study of 164 participants with advanced cancer. Self‐reported ADL ability and HRQoL were assessed using the ADL—Interview and...

Introduction: Occupational therapy (OT) is based on the core assumption that humans are active beings through engagement in occupations. Within OT, occupation is typically used as primary means and/or ends i.e. occupation-focused and/or occupation-based interventions are employed. Studies evaluating such interventions are limited. Objectives: To sy...

Background The world’s aging population contributes to an increase in people living with dementia, which is perceived as one of the main causes of disability and dependency for older people. The first dementia village in Denmark was established in 2015, with the intention of providing a safe and meaningful everyday life for people with dementia. Th...

Introduction: In a previous paper, we explored how people with advanced cancer experience occupational engagement and perceive quality of life; this pointed to the importance of doing things with and for others. These emerging findings resonate with the theoretical conceptualization of belonging within occupational science. Purpose: To gain a deepe...

Background: People with advanced cancer are able to live for extended periods of time. Advanced cancer can cause functional limitations influencing the ability to manage occupations. Although studies have shown that people with advanced cancer experience occupational difficulties, there is only limited research that specifically explores how these...

Date Presented 4/9/2016 The study among 164 persons with advanced cancer showed that the everyday activity problems they prioritized mainly concerned fulfilment of social roles, maintaining everyday life, and enjoying leisure activities. Types of activity problems could not be predicted for subgroups. Primary Author and Speaker: Åse Brandt Contribu...

Date Presented 4/8/2016 Advanced cancer affects the ability to manage occupations. The purpose of this study was to describe how people with advanced cancer manage occupations, using qualitative descriptive design, semistructured interviews with 73 participants, and content analysis. Self-developed strategies enabled independence. Primary Author an...

Date Presented 4/8/2016 This study provides significant knowledge about everyday activity problems and needs of the growing number of people who are living with cancer and provides the basis for developing tailored occupational therapy interventions for this population. Primary Author and Speaker: Åse Brandt Additional Author and Speaker: Karen la...

Background: People with advanced cancer may experience decreased ability to participate in daily activities. Since ability to perform daily activities is crucial for independent living, information is needed to specify occupational therapy services. The aims were to describe; activities they do perform and would like to perform; and perceived and o...

The purpose of this workshop is to share and discuss educational methods to foster master level education. Rationale Among the challenges of the post graduate master program in Occupational Therapy at University of Southern Denmark is the educational change towards an academic culture required of students to ascertain master level learning compete...

The ‘Cancer Home Life Project’ is introduced. Results concerning activity performance and priorities among people with advanced cancer are presented together with results about how they manage activities in everyday life. A protocol for a randomised, controlled trial (RCT) aiming to evaluate the effectiveness of a newly developed activity-based int...

The study among 164 persons with advanced cancer showed that everyday activity problems they prioritized mainly concerned fulfilment of social roles, maintaining everyday life and enjoying leisure activities. Types of activity problems could not be predicted for subgroups.

Advanced cancer affects the ability to manage occuparions. The purpose of this study was to describe how people with advanced cancer manage occupations, using qualitative descriptive design, semistructured interviews with 73 participants and content analysis. Self-developed strategies enabled independence.

From the Cancer Home Life Project

Purpose: was to describe how people with advanced cancer manage their occupations in everyday life at home. Background: Early diagnosis and more effective treatment techniques have enabled people with advanced cancer to live for extended periods of time. Cancer in advanced stages can have a profound impact on the individuals ability to manage occup...

Commercial virtual reality games have been used as adjunct therapy for stroke rehabilitation, mainly after patients have been discharged. The aim of this study was to explore stroke patients' experiences with Wii Sports® as a supplement to conventional occupational therapy in a controlled hospital setting. The study had a qualitative triangulation...

The aim was to obtain the best available knowledge on stroke survivors' experiences of rehabilitation. The increase in demands for accountability in health care and acknowledgement of the importance of client participation in health decisions calls for systematic ways of integrating this perspective. A systematic review of qualitative studies was p...