Activities of Daily Living

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INTRODUCTION
Everybody needs a helping hand at home or wherever they are, when we or our loved one’s become frail, unwell or when we become old.
The Activities of daily living of the older or unwell person in is a challenging career. There should also be a sound knowledge about their illness or signs of aging, influencing factors and mainly behaviour challenges i.e. physical, psychological, emotional, financial, social status.
“Activities of daily living (ADLs) are a term used in healthcare to refer to daily self-care activities within an individual's place of residence, in outdoor environments, or both. Health professionals routinely refer to the ability or inability to perform ADLs as a measurement of the functional status of a person, particularly in regards to people with disabilities and the elderly”(Encyclopedia of Nursing & Allied Health. ed. Kristine Krapp. Gale Group, Inc., 2002 e.notes.com.)
Activities of daily living are defined as the things we normally do... and also it empathizes the personal and social requirement of the person who needs some assistance with daily activities and health care to all who desires to age or disability with dignity and that self-care tasks including :-
ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING * Maintaining safe environment * Communicating * Breathing * Eating and drinking * Elimination * Personal hygiene and dressing * Controlling body temperature * Mobilizing * Working and planning * Sleeping * Expressing sexuality.
In this assignment, I will outline the main Activities of daily living carried out as a Health Care Assistant while caring for Mr. Peter (not real name) who has C.O.P.D. 1. “CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD) is the occurrence of chronic bronchitis or emphysema, a pair of commonly co-existing diseases of the lungs in which the airways narrow over

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