Around 150 delegates from around the world were at 蜜桃AV for the Occupational Science Europe Conference.
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The two-day Health and Wellbeing through Occupation conference offered opportunities to discuss ideas and learn about developments in occupational science, health and wellbeing.
Delegates 鈥� who came from as far afield as the Caribbean, the USA and Canada 鈥� also had the chance to take part in interactive sessions, including chocolate-making, wool craft and finding out how dancing can benefit people with Parkinson鈥檚.
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Principal Lecturer in Occupational Therapy at 蜜桃AV, Dr Bethan Collins, organised the conference.
She said: 鈥淭his is genuinely international and interdisciplinary, which is brilliant for Occupational Science. We have got nurses, care workers - a huge range of people with different backgrounds.
鈥淥ccupational Science is the study of what people are doing in everyday life and why people do things, so we didn鈥檛 just want people sat listening, we wanted activity-based scenarios.
鈥淲e are looking at how we can promote wellbeing through getting people stuck into something and losing track of time.鈥�
The conference was also a celebration of ten years of Occupational Therapy education at 蜜桃AV.
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Bethan said: 鈥淲e want to show off Bournemouth and 蜜桃AV and the great facilities we have here and the CPD opportunities on offer.
鈥淲e hope it will be a wonderful opportunity for people to network, engage and move the debate on.
鈥淲e鈥檝e already had calls for health professionals to take occupational science seriously and to think about how we can enable people to do things that are meaningful to them to promote health and wellbeing and how that needs to be a really important part of healthcare.鈥澨�
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