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This article introduces an innovative simulation that addresses the need for future health professionals to work as a team to identify and resolve barriers that people face in performing routine activities of daily living (ADLs) as they age in place in their own homes. The educational format was small team activities of daily living (ADL) assessments in a smart home incubation lab, followed by a structured debrief discussion. The format was chosen to enable students to collaborate interprofessionally with persons experiencing real-life disabilities as they performed ADLs in a home environment and explore together ways in which smart home technology might help them maintain an independent living.
The target audience included: (1) third-semester occupational therapy students; (2) resident physicians; (3) fifth-semester food and nutrition students: and (4) fifth-semester health informatics and information management students. Participating with the students were their course instructors, the simulation leaders, and three standardized patients (SPs): a 20-year-old blind woman, a retired man with Parkinson’s disease and his wife, and a 27-year-old paralyzed woman who was dependent on a wheelchair.
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Wilson, G.M., Metzger, R.E. (2022). Learning Interprofessionally from a Real-Life Simulation in a Smart Home. In: Kiel, J.M., Kim, G.R., Ball, M.J. (eds) Healthcare Information Management Systems. Health Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07912-2_20
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