Talk:Activities of daily living

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I have tidied up this article as so:

  • all health professionals assess using the activities of daily living
  • tidied the activities listed (ie, sexuality is not an activity of living, and 'feeding' and 'eating' are the same activity)
  • I changed around a lot of your edits. Death and dying is not an ADL. Maintaining a safe environment is an IADL and is already listed under that section. Also, expressing sexual activity is not an ADL, its the actual activity that is the ADL. Finally, I think that elimination is a term that is too rarely used, which is why I put back in the bowel and bladder movements. --aishel 02:40, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
I think it is worth pointing out that Roper et al's work does have dying as an activity of living (being the final one, of course!). I have just noticed that you are an OT by background. Roper et al's model is from a nursing perspective so perhaps that is relevant regarding the difference in definition?--Vince 22:38, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
I hear ya! The way I see it, and of course this could be my OT background, people don't die as part of their every day activities of life. Isn't that what this article is about? Daily living? You could put it back in, but in my humble opinion, there should be a note saying that that is according to one model. --aishel 03:41, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
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