What are ADL's (Activities of Daily Living) ?
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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On today’s episode we are going to talk about and discuss “What are ADL’s (Activities of Daily Living) ?”
Some of you may already be familiar with the phrase ADL or ADL’s. The initials stand for Activity or Activities of Daily Living.
But, what does that mean?
The phrase or term ADL’s or Activities of Daily Living is used to describe the skills that are required to independently take care of yourself. This includes:
Personal Hygiene – bathing/showering, grooming, nail care, and oral care.
Eating – the ability to feed oneself, though not necessarily the capability to prepare food.
Transferring and Mobility – being able to move yourself from a seated position to standing, being able to get in and out of bed, and the ability to walk independently from one location to another.
Maintaining Continence—which means the ability to both physically and mentally use the restroom by getting on and off of the toilet but also knowing when you need to use the restroom.
When you hear someone ask how a person does or is doing with their ADL’s these are what they are referring to and depending on how much help they are needing for one, two, or all of them can determine the amount of care they may need day-to-day.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care, with discussions on important age-related matters and topics. |
| 0:08.2 | Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top Rated Local. |
| 0:25.1 | Hello and welcome to all home care matters. |
| 0:28.6 | Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to join us here at the show. |
| 0:34.4 | If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to thank you for taking time out of your day to be here. |
| 0:38.9 | We know and appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try to make each episode here at all home care matters, something that will hopefully matter to you. |
| 0:44.1 | Now, on today's show, we're going to talk about and discuss what ADLs are or activities of daily |
| 0:49.4 | living. Now, some of you may already be familiar with the phrased ADL or ADLs. |
| 0:55.9 | The initial stand for activities or activity of daily living. |
| 1:00.4 | But what does that mean? |
| 1:01.6 | The phrase or term ADLs, activities of daily living, is used to describe the skills that are required to independently take care of oneself. |
| 1:09.9 | This includes personal care, bathing, |
| 1:12.9 | showering, grooming, nail care, and oral care, eating, the ability to feed oneself, though it doesn't |
| 1:19.6 | necessarily mean the capability to prepare food. Transferring in mobility, being able to move yourself |
| 1:26.1 | from one seated position to another or from a seated position to standing, |
| 1:31.3 | being able to get in and out of your bed and the ability to walk independently from one location to another. |
| 1:37.3 | Maintaining continents. Now, which this means the ability to both physically and mentally use the restroom by getting on and off the toilet, but also knowing when you need to use the restroom. |
| 1:49.8 | Now, when you hear someone ask how a person does or is doing with their ADLs, these are what they're referring to and depending on how much help they are needing for one, two, or all of them can determine the amount |
| 2:02.4 | of care they may need day to day. |
| 2:06.1 | Another reason that ADLs are important, aside from the safety and well-being of the individual |
| 2:11.0 | being assessed, is that long-term care insurances and other assistance programs will require |
| 2:17.0 | the individual to need assistance |
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