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Healthcare · Updated Aug 2026

Occupational Therapists

Assess, plan, and organize rehabilitative programs that help build or restore vocational, homemaking, and daily living skills, as well as general independence, to persons with disabilities or developmental delays. Use therapeutic techniques, adapt the individual's environment, teach skills, and modify specific tasks that present barriers to the individual.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
62/100
High

How much of this occupation’s work can be materially affected by current AI systems.

Replacement Risk
51/100
Moderate

How likely exposure is to translate into reduced human demand.

Includes provisional estimates for AI adoption pressure and labour-market resilience. How this is measured

Evidence quality
Confidence83/100
Task coverage87%

Confidence reflects task coverage, mapping and capability-evidence quality, and how much of the score rests on provisional inputs.

Task-level evidence

What is driving the score?

Occupation scores are built from the task mix—not a single prediction about a job title.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
TaskImportanceAI impactExposure
Plan, organize, and conduct occupational therapy programs in hospital, institutional, or community settings to help rehabilitate persons with disabilities because of illness, injury or psychological or developmental problems.High
68
Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental or physical capabilities.High
69
Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.High
67
Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients.High
66
Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.High
70
Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs or coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.High
70
Recommend changes in patients' work or living environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities.High
65
Design and create, or requisition, special supplies and equipment, such as splints, braces, and computer-aided adaptive equipment.High
68
Train caregivers in providing for the needs of a patient during and after therapy.High
53
Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills, using computer programs.Medium
64
Develop and participate in health promotion programs, group activities, or discussions to promote client health, facilitate social adjustment, alleviate stress, and prevent physical or mental disability.Medium
64
Advise on health risks in the workplace or on health-related transition to retirement.Medium
71
Provide training and supervision in therapy techniques and objectives for students or nurses and other medical staff.Medium
52
Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean and repair these tools after therapy sessions.High
20
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

Routine, digitized, and highly repeatable tasks face the greatest pressure.

  1. Advise on health risks in the workplace or on health-related transition to retirement.71
  2. Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.70
  3. Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs or coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.70
  4. Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental or physical capabilities.69
Hardest to automate

Where people still matter

These tasks score lowest on automation feasibility—physical presence, judgement, accountability and real-world variability all resist end-to-end automation.

  1. Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean and repair these tools after therapy sessions.01
  2. Plan, organize, and conduct occupational therapy programs in hospital, institutional, or community settings to help rehabilitate persons with disabilities because of illness, injury or psychological or developmental problems.02
  3. Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental or physical capabilities.03
  4. Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs or coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.04
  5. Design and create, or requisition, special supplies and equipment, such as splints, braces, and computer-aided adaptive equipment.05
Where else this work leads

Related occupations

Occupations O*NET links to this one. Relatedness reflects shared work, not a claim that these roles are safer.

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Beyond AI capability

Adoption and labour-market outlook

Structural factors are kept separate from raw capability so you can see what actually resists automation. Adoption pressure and labour-market resilience are still provisional models—25% of this occupation’s replacement-risk weight rests on them.

Human dependency58
Physical dependency47
Adoption pressure45
Labour-market resilience68
Methodology & sources

O*NET 30.3 occupational data interpreted through the JobsVsAI capability, automation and structural-constraint models.

Confidence83/100
CalculatedAug 21, 2026
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