Participation: What is it?
Participation:
- is ‘involvement
in a life situation’ (WHO 2001)
- occurs when an
individual and/or a community is involved in activities, which provide a sense
of engagement, within the context of their everyday life
- is a process as well as an outcome measure (Imms
2017)
- is a health and
well-being outcome
- is concerned with
people, their occupations within their cultural, economic, physical, political and
social environment.
Participation includes ‘attendance’ (being there) and ‘involvement’ (being in the moment) (Imms et al 2015)
