In long-term care (LTC) insurance, activities that require higher levels of functional ability than basic activities of daily living and provide an indication of whether a person is able to function independently at home. The IADLs include the ability to use a telephone, use transportation services, shop for groceries, prepare meals, perform housework tasks, and take medicine as directed by a prescribing physician. See also activities of daily living (ADLs).
activities that are essential if a person is to live independently, eg. use of a telephone or public transportation, housework, cooking, financial management. See also activities of daily living (ADLs)
More complex activities needed for daily living, such as shopping, bill paying, cooking, meal preparation, medication management, telephone use, housekeeping and use of transportation.
Everyday activities, competence in which is considered a measure of the ability to live independently; these activities include managing finances, shopping for necessities, using the telephone, obtaining transportation, preparing meals, taking medication, and housekeeping. (564)
More complex activities, not necessarily done everyday, but which are important to independent living. They include preparing meals, doing housework, doing laundry, using transportation, shopping, managing money, using the telephone, and doing home maintenance.
Normal day-to-day housekeeping activities such as cooking, cleaning, shopping, etc. with which functionally impaired individuals may need assistance. Also see activities of daily living.
Independent functions such as shopping, cooking, cleaning, etc.
Basic functional activities necessary for you to remain in your home, such as meal preparation, shopping, light housekeeping, laundry, telephoning, and handling money and paying bills.
household/independent living tasks that include using the telephone, taking medications, and money management.
This usually refers to self care activities that are required to maintain oneself in the community, such as telephone use, shopping, food preparation, housekeeping, laundry, self-medication, handling finances, and accessing health care.
basic tasks that are necessary to maintain an individual at home such as laundry, cleaning, shoping, and taking care of personal finances.
Include housekeeping, cooking, shopping, laundry, medication management, money management, and communication.
Complex activities required for independent living, such as using a telephone, home management, cooking, use of public transportation, or financial management.
Activities required to live independently, such as using the telephone, shopping, preparing meals, housekeeping, doing laundry, transportation, taking medicines, and handling finances.
Activities pertaining to daily living needs such as shopping, using the telephone, cooking, housekeeping and taking medications.
Instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) are important daily living activities, such as cooking, shopping and managing finances. Long-term care facility A long-term care facility is a nursing home or assisted living center designed for disabled adults.
The NHIS collects information on people's need for assistance in performing instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs). The IADLs include routine personal assistance needs such as household chores, doing necessary business, shopping or getting around for other purposes. People who need assistance in ADLs were not asked about IADLs. On the SIPP, instrumental activities of daily living include: going outside the home, keeping track of money or bills, preparing meals, doing light housework and using the telephone.(See also activities of daily living).
These are tasks that, in addition to activities of daily living, you must be able to perform in order to live independently (without the assistance or substantial supervision of another person). Examples include grocery shopping, meal preparation, using the telephone, laundry, light housekeeping, bill paying, and managing your medications. Most long-term care insurance policies will not pay benefits for the loss of ability to perform IADLs.
Day-to-day tasks such as preparing meals, shopping, managing money, taking medication, and housekeeping.
Determines the physical and mental impairment while performing activities such as shopping, telephone use, housekeeping, laundry, taking medications, and managing finances
Activities such as shopping, cooking, home chores, heavy household shores, managing money, etc. that are important components of maintaining independent living.
An index which measures a client's ability and degree of independence in cognitive and social functioning, such as shopping, cooking, doing housework, managing money, and using the telephone.
Secondary level of activities (different from ADLs, such as eating, dressing, and bathing) important to daily living, such as cooking, writing, and driving.
Household, rather than personal, management activities: preparing meals, bed making, laundry/ironing, managing money, using the telephone, shopping and heavy housework.