ADLs
Setting up, arranging, and bringing food (or fluid) from the plate or cup to the mouth; sometimes called self-feeding
What is Feeding?
Planning, preparing, and serving well-balanced, nutritious meals and cleaning up food utensils after meals.
What is Meal preparation and cleanup?
Identifying topics and methods for obtaining topic-related information or skills.
What is Informal personal education needs or interests exploration (beyond formal education)?
Determining community causes, organizations, or opportunities for unpaid work in relationship to personal skills, interests, and location, and time available.
What is Volunteer exploration?
Knowing and performing preventative procedures to maintain a safe environment; recognizing sudden, unexpected hazardous situations; and initiating emergency action to reduce the threat to health and safety. (e.g. replacing items such as batteries in smoke alarms and light bulbs)
What is Safety and emergency maintenance?
Moving from one position or place to another (during performance of everyday activities), such as in-bed mobility, wheelchair mobility, and transfers. Includes functional ambulation and transportation of objects.
What is Functional mobility?
Using fiscal resources, including alternate methods of financial transaction, and planning and using finances with long-term and short-term goals.
What is Financial Management?
Activities needed for learning and participating in the educational environment.
What is Education?
Performing unpaid work activities for the benefit of selected causes, organizations, or facilities.
What is Volunteer participation?
Nonobligatory activity that is intrinsically motivated and engaged in during discretionary time, that is, time not committed to obligatory occupations such as work, self-care, or sleep.
What is Leisure?
Engaging in activities that result in sexual satisfaction and/or meet relational or reproductive needs.
What is Sexual activity?
Developing, managing, and maintaining routines for health and wellness promotion, such as physical fitness, nutrition, decreased health risk behaviors, and medication routines.
What is Health management and maintenance?
Participating in academic, nonacademic, extracurricular, and vocational educational activities.
What is Formal education participation?
Any spontaneous or organized activity that provides enjoyment, entertainment, amusement, or diversion.
What is Play?
Identifying interests, skills, opportunities, and appropriate leisure activities.
What is Leisure exploration?
Using, cleaning, and maintaining personal care items, such as hearing aids, contact lenses, glasses, orthotics, prosthetics, adaptive equipment, glucometers, and contraceptive and sexual devices.
What is Personal device care?
Planning and moving around in the community and using public or private transportation, such as driving, walking, bicycling, or accessing and riding buses, taxi cabs, or other transportation systems.
What is Driving and community mobility?
Identifying topics and methods for obtaining topic-related information or skills.
What is Informal personal education needs or interests exploration (beyond formal education)?
Identifying appropriate play activities, including exploration play, practice play, pretend play, games with rules, construction play, and symbolic play.
What is Play exploration?
Preparing shopping lists; selecting, purchasing, and transporting items; selecting method of payment; and completing money transactions.
What is Shopping?
Obtaining and using supplies; removing body hair; applying and removing cosmetics; washing, drying, combing, styling, brushing, trimming hair; caring for nails; caring for skin; applying deodorant; cleaning mouth; brushing and flossing teeth; and removing, cleaning, and reinserting dental othotics and prosthetics.
What is Personal hygiene and grooming?
Obtaining and maintaining personal and household possessions and environment (e.g. home, yard, vehicles), including maintaining and repairing personal possessions (e.g. clothing, household items) and knowing how to seek help or whom to contact.
What is Home establishment and management?
Participating in informal classes, programs, and activities that provide instruction or training in identified areas of interest.
What is Informal personal education participation?
Participating in play; maintaining a balance of play with other occupations; and obtaining, using, and maintaining toys, equipment, and supplies appropriately.
What is Play participation?
Participating in religion, "an organized system of beliefs, practices, rituals, and symbols designed to facilitate closeness to the sacred or transcendent", and engaging in activities that allow a sense of connectedness to something larger than oneself or that are especially meaningful, such as engaging in activities in nature, and helping others in need.
What is Religious and spiritual activities and expression?