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Description: Objective: This scoping review will identify the following: (1) What occupational therapy interventions exist for promoting healthy ageing in adults? (2) What are the intervention characteristics and their evaluated outcome and impact observed? Introduction: Healthy ageing is a pressing public health priority. As focussing on what people do every day may be a meaningful approach to lifestyle change there is a need for occupation therapy interventions to promote healthy ageing. Developing an overview of studies of occupational therapy interventions to promote healthy ageing is a necessary first step to understanding the existing knowledge and to increase the impact of future interventions. This scoping review will build on previously conducted reviews. Inclusion criteria: The review will consider all studies and publications of occupational therapy focussed on promoting healthy ageing in community-dwelling adults who are aged 18 years and older. Methods: The databases to be searched are AMED, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, Embase, JBI EBP database, Medline, OALster, PsycINFO, PsycArticles, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, Proquest nursing and allied health source, PubMed, and Science Direct. Covidence will be used to manage the screening and data extraction. Titles and abstracts will be screened against the inclusion criteria. Potentially relevant studies will be retrieved in full and will be assessed in detail against the inclusion criteria. Study selection will be completed by two independent reviewers. Data will be extracted from papers using a data extraction tool. Data will be charted using the Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) checklist in alignment with the review objectives.