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What to Know About ADLs and IADLS

If you spend time in a healthcare facility, you may hear the term "ADL" used by staff. ADL is medical shorthand for ...
Activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) are tasks that independent adults can do on their own. ADLs include feeding, getting dressed, bathing, toileting, ...
Care that is centered around activities of daily living is a major key to helping combat the most common infections seen in nursing homes. That’s according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...
Black residents in skilled nursing facilities are less likely than those in other racial and ethnic groups to experience improvement in activities of daily living (ADL) after hospital discharge, ...
A Medicaid policy that incentivized greater staffing, with bonus reimbursements up to $38.68 per resident day and based on acuity-adjusted staffing ...