Activities of Daily Living

Most people go about their day performing the tasks and functions of daily living without much thought about it. They perform the various tasks of personal hygiene, clothe themselves, use the restroom, eat the food they prepare, and perform a variety of tasks with ease and convenience. However, there is a large and growing community of people who have lost, through accident, injury, illness, or genetic defect, the ability to perform these daily routine tasks on their own leaving them dependent on others and at risk for living with unsafe conditions and a poor quality of life. Unfortunately, this can serve as a predictor of admission to nursing homes, the need for alternate living arrangements, and the need for paid home care services.

Activities of daily living can be grouped into these categories:

• Dressing: the ability to put on and take off clothing
• Feeding: the ability to prepare food and feed oneself
• Bathing/personal hygiene: the ability to bathe, groom, brush teeth, comb hair, care for finger and toe nails
• Toileting: the ability to effectively sit down and rise up from the toilet, use appropriately, and then efficiently clean oneself after
• Ambulation: the ability to walk and move about independently

Fortunately, with the aid of specially designed and engineered tools and devices, often known as assists or aids, these individuals can independently perform these tasks and live a greater quality of life. Activities of daily living aids and assists include:

• Alarms/sensors
• Bedroom assists
• Dressing aids
• Eating assists
• Gadgets
• Grooming assists
• Hip kits
• Medication aids
• Misc. aids
• Non-slip aids
• Reachers

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