This book helps you learn how pathological conditions affect your clients' daily functioning, and what occupational therapy services your clients might need. This revised edition focuses on chronic health problems and their impact on an individual's physical, cognitive, psychological, and social capabilities. Readers learn how the patient's age, life tasks, and living environment affect occupational therapy needs, and how to determine what occupational therapy services to provide. This resource presents the etiology, symptoms, prognosis, and progression of conditions frequently encountered in practice.