Our core professional values have been enduring and remarkably relevant to decades past and times present. Our values ensure the currency of our professional contribution, our resilience, readiness, and adaptability, to meet the challenges as we move into the next decade and beyond. In this Sylvia Docker lecture, I draw on my career experience from practice and academic research to examine this premise. The social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic gave us all a picture of what our clients experience in an enduring way and the challenges of maintaining healthy lifestyles, meaningful occupations, and life roles. One of the greatest population challenges of this century is healthy ageing and the impact that ageism has on health. We live in a society that is ageist, and such cultural thinking impacts our beliefs and expectations as it does for older adults themselves. As occupational therapists, we strive to maintain our relevance, and we drive transformational change through using research-informed evidence-based approaches and adopting enablement programmes that meet the needs of people who are ageing. While prominent in enablement and therapeutic approaches, we are not immune to ageism. Being exposed to ageist views throughout our lives means, we internalise these and believe that ageing is a process of decline. Such self-perceptions and stereotyping impact the health of older people and influence the choices we make in our everyday practice. There are examples of emerging evidence and approaches that will meet these challenges and ways to re-frame ageist thinking. Occupational therapy values of working with people's strengths, what they can do, indicates we are well placed to engage and provide leadership in moving societal views. Addressing ageism requires self-reflection and action in order to be part of changing the narrative on ageing.

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相关性、复原力和年龄歧视：职业治疗和健康老龄化的光明未来，Sylvia Docker 讲座 2021

我们的核心专业价值观经久不衰，与过去几十年和现在的时代息息相关。我们的价值观确保了我们的专业贡献、我们的韧性、准备和适应能力，以应对我们进入下一个十年及以后的挑战。在这次 Sylvia Docker 讲座中，我利用我在实践和学术研究中的职业经验来检验这个前提。COVID-19 大流行期间的社会孤立让我们所有人都了解了我们的客户以持久的方式所经历的事情，以及维持健康的生活方式、有意义的职业和生活角色所面临的挑战。本世纪最大的人口挑战之一是健康老龄化以及年龄歧视对健康的影响。我们生活在一个年龄歧视的社会，这种文化思维会影响我们的信念和期望，就像它对老年人本身一样。作为职业治疗师，我们努力保持我们的相关性，并通过使用基于研究的循证方法和采用满足老年人需求的支持计划来推动转型变革。虽然在赋能和治疗方法方面很突出，但我们也不能免于年龄歧视。在我们的一生中暴露于年龄歧视的观点意味着，我们内化了这些观点，并相信衰老是一个衰退的过程。这种自我认知和刻板印象会影响老年人的健康，并影响我们在日常实践中做出的选择。有一些新兴证据和方法的例子可以应对这些挑战以及重新构建年龄歧视思维的方法。与人们的长处一起工作的职业治疗价值观，他们可以做什么，表明我们有能力参与并在推动社会观点方面发挥领导作用。解决年龄歧视问题需要自我反省和行动，才能成为改变老龄化叙事的一部分。