Activities of daily living (ADLs).
Activities of daily living, or ADLs, are the basic self-care tasks a person does every day: bathing, dressing, eating, toileting, moving around, and staying continent.
ADLs are the core measure of how much hands-on help your parent needs. The usual list is bathing, dressing, eating, using the toilet, transferring (getting in and out of a bed or chair), and continence.
Care teams, insurers, and facilities count how many ADLs your parent needs help with to decide the level of care. Needing help with several ADLs often points toward more support at home, assisted living, or a nursing facility, and it can affect what a long-term care policy pays.
ADLs are the basics of the body. The next tier up, the tasks of running a household, are the instrumental ADLs.
Where Kinbase fits
Terms like this one show up in real weeks, in a discharge folder or a doctor’s offhand remark. Kinbase gives your family one place to keep what you learn about your parent’s care, so the next person helping is not starting from scratch.
Start your family’s record.
Name the book, invite the people who help, and the record starts keeping itself. Most families are set up inside ten minutes.
Free for families to start. Everyone you invite joins from a link or by scanning a code, and nobody has to install anything to read or write.