While world leaders debated strategies for tackling climate change at the COP26 conference in Glasgow, Scotland in November 2021, I pondered “what role can ergonomics play in this issue?”
As an occupational therapy educator, researcher, and therapeutic design consultant, my work focuses on how experiences in nature impact health and wellbeing.
People feel more personally valued when they are able to maintain a level of independence in their daily lives. Maintaining independence and sense of control despite changes occurring because of aging...