Benefits of Activites of Daily Living (ADL)
The Activities of daily living (ADL) is designed to benefit any patient
suffering from an any physical problems. ADL encompasses
all tasks that are both necessary and meaningful to a patient. Self-care skills,
including bathing, dressing, oral hygiene, hair care, feeding skills and play
skills for children, are considered basic ADL. Writing, driving, home-care
tasks, child care, finance management and work or school-related activities are
considered advanced ADL. Leisure activities, such as sports, hobbies and musical
talents, are examples of meaningful tasks that would be simulated or practiced
to return the patient to a functional level of physical and emotional
involvement. The purpose of therapeutic intervention for retraining activities
of daily living is two-fold. One, the goals of therapy with temporary or
transient conditions focus on remediation of the identified deficits to allow a
patient to return to the maximal level of independence in all ADL. Two, the
goals of therapy with permanent or chronic conditions may include instruction in
compensatory techniques to allow the patient to safely accomplish a task,
retraining by habituation to reinforce a new method of completing activities or
training with adaptive equipment to safely accomplish ADL within the patient's
limited capacities.
(For more information about ADL click on this link)
aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/meacmpes.htm
The Activities of daily living (ADL) is designed to benefit any patient
suffering from an any physical problems. ADL encompasses
all tasks that are both necessary and meaningful to a patient. Self-care skills,
including bathing, dressing, oral hygiene, hair care, feeding skills and play
skills for children, are considered basic ADL. Writing, driving, home-care
tasks, child care, finance management and work or school-related activities are
considered advanced ADL. Leisure activities, such as sports, hobbies and musical
talents, are examples of meaningful tasks that would be simulated or practiced
to return the patient to a functional level of physical and emotional
involvement. The purpose of therapeutic intervention for retraining activities
of daily living is two-fold. One, the goals of therapy with temporary or
transient conditions focus on remediation of the identified deficits to allow a
patient to return to the maximal level of independence in all ADL. Two, the
goals of therapy with permanent or chronic conditions may include instruction in
compensatory techniques to allow the patient to safely accomplish a task,
retraining by habituation to reinforce a new method of completing activities or
training with adaptive equipment to safely accomplish ADL within the patient's
limited capacities.
(For more information about ADL click on this link)
aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/meacmpes.htm