Posts

Showing posts from October, 2024

Sniff and Scurry Navigate the Red Queen's Race: Occupational Therapy Private Practice in 2024

Image
I've struggled to find models that help me understand the challenges facing my private practice. I have never really been strongly interested in pop-thought conceptual non-fiction books because they tend to be overly simplistic and repetitive. 'Who Moved My Cheese' is a classic example, even if it did resonate with a lot of people in its time. Anyway, I have been thinking about change and adaptation because I have been trying to pump figurative bullets into our private practice for a couple years now and it just won't die. A global pandemic didn't kill our private practice - we were propped up by a generous governmental solution to keep our employees.  Then there was an increasing demand for therapy since the pandemic created a whole new generation of developmental and mental health problems for the pediatric population. Selling the office building didn't kill the private practice either - demand for in home and community services took the place of the outpatien