The Life Hacks and Assistive Devices project has been an ongoing series of collaborative research studies between CAPA and occupational therapy students at McMaster (Marisa McRae & Sarah McCulloch, Megan Neufield & Becky Treshamet Bella Cairns). The goals of the project are:
• To describe and share innovative strategies individuals with arthritis in Canada have created and use to meet their occupational needs.
• Spread knowledge across the arthritis community about helpful existing assistive devices, strategies, and life hacks to help with everyday challenges people living with arthritis experience.
• Promote further research to create reliable and peer-reviewed recommendations to inform patients and arthritis care healthcare practice.
This section features collected resources from recent research to help people with arthritis live life well and independently with arthritis. Read the pages below to get to know the students who worked on this project, learn more about OTs, and see the research data in infographic format. Additionally, visual aids and / or descriptions of assistive devices and life hacks are featured below.