ADLS
Let's talk about ADLs!
Let's talk about ADLs or activities of daily living! It is basic personal everyday activities including, but not limited to, tasks such as eating, toileting, grooming, dressing, bathing, and transferring. ADLs are also known as billing activities.
BASIC ADLs or ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING consist of self-care tasks that include, but are not limited to:
Bathing and showering - washing the body.
Personal hygiene and grooming-personal hygiene involves those practices performed by an individual to care for one's bodily health and well being, through cleanliness. Some practices are gender-specific, such as by a woman during her menstrual cycle.
Inducements for personal hygiene practice include reduction of personal illness, healing from personal illness, optimal health and sense of well being, social acceptance and prevention of spread of illness to others. What is considered proper personal hygiene can be cultural-specific and may change over time. In some cultures removal of body hair is considered proper hygiene. Other practices that are generally contemplated proper hygiene include bathing regularly, washing hands regularly and especially before handling food, washing scalp hair, keeping hair short or removing hair, wearing clean clothing, brushing one's teeth and cutting nails.
Dressing/Toilet hygiene -getting to the toilet, cleaning oneself, and getting back up. Though, this is not on HCS RSS and SL Service Delivery Log Forms it falls under "personal hygeine".
Functional mobility, often referred to as "transferring", as measured by the ability to walk, get in and out of bed, and get into and out of a chair; the broader definition (moving from one place to another while performing activities) is useful for people with different physical abilities who are still able to get around independently.
Self-feeding/eating - not including cooking or chewing and swallowing.
Meal Planning - A meal is an eating occasion that takes place at a certain time and includes specific, prepared food, or the food eaten on that occasion.
Meal Preparation - is preparing food for eating, generally requires selection, measurement and combination of ingredients in an ordered procedure so as to achieve desired results.
One way to think about basic ADLs is that they are the things many people do when they get up in the morning and get ready to go out of the house: get out of bed, go to the toilet, bathe, dress, groom, and eat.
In the 'your right' section of the Your Rights in a Home Community-Based Services Program book states that one of the consumer's responsibilities are to "follow the rules of your program" however CAN YOU BELIEVE THE ETHICAL DILEMMA? When a client acts out in response to being bathed or asked to bathe, is essentially exercising his right to “refuse” the care. In the case of someone with a mental disability, the person may have trouble expressing their refusal in a rational way, and may hit, yell, kick or bite.
Regardless of the way the refusal is expressed, the client still has the right to refuse. I case it is safe to safe the are refusing their fear or lack of.
INSTRUMENTAL ACTIVITIES OF DAILY (IADLs) are not necessary for fundamental functioning, but they let an individual live independently in a community:
Food preparation includes but is not limited to cooking.
Housekeeping - the cleaning maintenance of a house or establishment.
Taking medications as prescribed (MAR) - the Medication Administration Record (MAR) is used to document medications taken by each individual.
Managing money - is the process of budgeting, saving, investing, spending or otherwise in overseeing the cash usage of an individual or group.
Shopping for groceries or clothing - for self
Use of telephone or other form of communication - to call family, case management or others
Transportation within the community - MITS or other public transportation
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Let's talk about ADLs or activities of daily living! It is basic personal everyday activities including, but not limited to, tasks such as eating, toileting, grooming, dressing, bathing, and transferring. ADLs are also known as billing activities.
BASIC ADLs or ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING consist of self-care tasks that include, but are not limited to:
Bathing and showering - washing the body.
Personal hygiene and grooming-personal hygiene involves those practices performed by an individual to care for one's bodily health and well being, through cleanliness. Some practices are gender-specific, such as by a woman during her menstrual cycle.
Inducements for personal hygiene practice include reduction of personal illness, healing from personal illness, optimal health and sense of well being, social acceptance and prevention of spread of illness to others. What is considered proper personal hygiene can be cultural-specific and may change over time. In some cultures removal of body hair is considered proper hygiene. Other practices that are generally contemplated proper hygiene include bathing regularly, washing hands regularly and especially before handling food, washing scalp hair, keeping hair short or removing hair, wearing clean clothing, brushing one's teeth and cutting nails.
Dressing/Toilet hygiene -getting to the toilet, cleaning oneself, and getting back up. Though, this is not on HCS RSS and SL Service Delivery Log Forms it falls under "personal hygeine".
Functional mobility, often referred to as "transferring", as measured by the ability to walk, get in and out of bed, and get into and out of a chair; the broader definition (moving from one place to another while performing activities) is useful for people with different physical abilities who are still able to get around independently.
Self-feeding/eating - not including cooking or chewing and swallowing.
Meal Planning - A meal is an eating occasion that takes place at a certain time and includes specific, prepared food, or the food eaten on that occasion.
Meal Preparation - is preparing food for eating, generally requires selection, measurement and combination of ingredients in an ordered procedure so as to achieve desired results.
One way to think about basic ADLs is that they are the things many people do when they get up in the morning and get ready to go out of the house: get out of bed, go to the toilet, bathe, dress, groom, and eat.
In the 'your right' section of the Your Rights in a Home Community-Based Services Program book states that one of the consumer's responsibilities are to "follow the rules of your program" however CAN YOU BELIEVE THE ETHICAL DILEMMA? When a client acts out in response to being bathed or asked to bathe, is essentially exercising his right to “refuse” the care. In the case of someone with a mental disability, the person may have trouble expressing their refusal in a rational way, and may hit, yell, kick or bite.
Regardless of the way the refusal is expressed, the client still has the right to refuse. I case it is safe to safe the are refusing their fear or lack of.
INSTRUMENTAL ACTIVITIES OF DAILY (IADLs) are not necessary for fundamental functioning, but they let an individual live independently in a community:
Food preparation includes but is not limited to cooking.
Housekeeping - the cleaning maintenance of a house or establishment.
Taking medications as prescribed (MAR) - the Medication Administration Record (MAR) is used to document medications taken by each individual.
Managing money - is the process of budgeting, saving, investing, spending or otherwise in overseeing the cash usage of an individual or group.
Shopping for groceries or clothing - for self
Use of telephone or other form of communication - to call family, case management or others
Transportation within the community - MITS or other public transportation
WhatsUpJayTee Disclaimer
*The videos linked does not belong to WhatsUpJayTee, for additional information and resources ONLY.
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