Value of life stories in occupation-based research

Life stories are valuable resources in occupational therapy because they are personal interpretations of people's occupational participation throughout their life course. Life stories can be used as data in occupation-based research to understand the form, function and meaning of occupation at different stages of a person's life. As occupational therapy aims to enable people to participate in meaningful occupation, understandings gained from life-story analysis can be incorporated into the knowledge base of occupational therapy, to advance practice.6 page(s