The Occupational Transition of Athletic Retirement: An Emerging Area of Practice for the Occupational Therapy Profession
&NA; Date Presented 3/30/2017 Occupational therapy's role in transition services has historically demonstrated positive outcomes throughout the lifespan. This study considers the lived experience of the occupational transition of athletic retirement as a potential emerging area of practice for the profession. Primary Author and Speaker: Michael Smoot Contributing Authors: Abbey Marterella
This chapter considers the complexity of dealing with decommissioned automotive plants and focuses on the site, neighborhood, and city scales. Using Flint, Michigan, and Toledo, Ohio as examples, we categorize a set of five widely used strategies that shape the physical evolution and repurposing of automotive plants and their sites after closure. These are brownfield remediation, infrastructure, the use of catalytic projects, creating enterprise zones, and developing nodes. We highlight the physical impacts that the auto industry’s restructuring has at the scale of the neighborhood and city, as well as its profound influence on the morphology of a region. We conclude that no current models offer a truly successful approach to dealing with decommissioned automotive plants.