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Activities of daily living (ADL) are the functional status of health, mainly related with daily self-care activities within an individual’s place of residence and in outdoor environment (Krapp 2003).
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Activities of daily living (ADL) are used in rehabilitation as an umbrella term relating to self-care, comprising those activities or tasks that people undertake routinely in their everyday life (Fricke 2002). Krapp (2003) defined that ADL indicates the functional status of health, mainly related with daily self-care activities within an individual’s place of residence and in outdoor environment.
ADL is generally divided into basic ADL (BADL) and instrumental ADL (IADL). The first is related with personal care task, most often used for measuring the functional ability. Katz et al. (1963) developed an early measure of BADL, called the Katz Activities of Daily Living Scale, which includes the set of tasks such as bathing, dressing, transferring, using the toilet,...
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Kim, S. (2021). Activities of Daily Living (ADL). In: Maggino, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69909-7_18-2
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