{"id":518,"date":"2026-07-20T00:52:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T05:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/?p=518"},"modified":"2026-07-20T11:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:34:14","slug":"april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"Presentation at the 2026 AOTA Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.7&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.7&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.7&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.7&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;left&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-size: x-large; color: #6c0633; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;\"><strong>April 2026<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Dr. Chen attended the 2026 American Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference in Anaheim, California, where she presented her work, \u201cMitigating Loneliness in People Aging with Long-Term Physical Disabilities (PAwLTPD): The Importance of Social Activity, Depression, and Fatigue.\u201d The conference provided an opportunity <\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">to share the lab\u2019s emerging research and connect with occupational therapy scholars, practitioners, and students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Attending-2026-AOTA-conference-300x249.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" alt=\"Dr. Szu-Wei Chen standing in front of her poster in the 2026 AOTA conference\" class=\"wp-image-500 aligncenter size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Attending-2026-AOTA-conference-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Attending-2026-AOTA-conference.jpg 653w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #6c0633; font-size: x-large;\">\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 2026 Dr. Chen attended the 2026 American&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lab-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}