Forces in Mind Trust future insights workshop report
Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT) partnered with Patrick Harris and James Alexander from Future Agenda to deliver a workshop to explore the key societal challenges and opportunities most likely to affect the Armed Forces community in the future and the freedoms and constraints impacting the environment of their support. The workshop built on the Lifting Our Sights: Beyond 2030 foresight report, which examined the impact of future trends on Service personnel and their families as they transition out of the military over the next ten years and beyond. The purpose of the event was to enable participants, and the organisations they represent, to recognise and explore their role and required potential action, to better deliver support for the Armed Forces community in the future. The intended outcomes included: • To have explored and identified the needs of the Armed Forces community in 2030 and beyond • To understand other’s and alternative perspectives • To identify specific areas of opportunity, challenge and action • To identify the implications of this exploration for attendee’s organisations The event bought together representatives from a range of sectors including central government, the devolved administrations, the Armed Forces, academia and the charity sector. This report provides a summary of the key findings from the day.
Abstract: IMPORTANCE: Veterans with occupational performance (e.g., activities of daily living [ADL]) limitations who are receiving inpatient psychiatric care may benefit from outpatient occupational therapy upon discharge, but access disparities have not been investigated. OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether ADL limitations, an indicator of need, are associated with outpatient occupational therapy utilization after inpatient psychiatric hospitalization in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and whether this relationship differs by facility characteristics. DESIGN: Secondary analysis of VHA medical record data. Modified Poisson regression was used to model outpatient occupational therapy utilization (yes or no) as a function of ADL limitations, facility characteristics, and sociodemographic and clinical characteristics. Interactions were used to estimate whether the relationship between ADL limitations and outpatient occupational therapy utilization differs across facility characteristics. SETTING: VHA outpatient setting. PARTICIPANTS: Veterans who received VHA inpatient psychiatric care from 2015 to 2020 and lived