Try: There are basically two levels of functional daily living activities that assist caregivers in determining how much or how little assistance is needed these two levels are activities of daily living adl’s and these consist of the basic personal care activities such as bathing dressing grooming eating bed mobility transferring toileting and walking the other level is instrumental or independent activities of daily living iadl’s and these are tasks that in addition to adl’s a person must be able to perform in order to live independently examples of iadl’s include grocery shopping meal preparation using the telephone laundry light housekeeping bill paying and managing medications the list below will enable you to check the level of functioning and help you decide what help is needed adl’s independent needs help dependent cannot do bathing dressing grooming oral care toileting transferring walking climbing stairs eating iadl’s cooking shopping driving manage medications manage money housework laundry information references adapted from the caring for your parents internet website www midwestgcm org
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Keywords: Functioning level activities of daily living instrumental activities of daily living
*This information is listed as a Fact Sheet and is not explicitly medically licensed