Training in Performance of ADL in Mumbai

1. Strategies Taught :

The most commonly taught therapeutic tactics were

• Fatigue management or energy-saving approaches,
• Instruction in adapting kitchen assistance and Hemi-dressing procedures (for example, dressing the affected side of the body first, using adaptive dressing aids such as a button hook).
• Techniques for accomplishing things with one hand (for example, using a system mat to support a mixing bowl while breaking an egg into the bowl with one hand),
• Maintaining a notebook, daily planner, or list, were commonly taught methods.

2. Strategy Usage :

• Many people have reported using all of the tactics in the questionnaire.
• No approach has been reported as being used by all participants. Over half of participants utilize mobile phone alarm or reminder capabilities, written and image instructions, plans and priorities approach, and purchase during calmer supermarket hours.
• Taking frequent pauses to save energy, utilizing lists/notebooks/diaries/calendars, and finding a quiet area to focus on were also mentioned by more than half of the participants.

3. Device usage :

The devices with the most recorded use were as follows :

• A buttering board (has a raised lip on two sides of the board to “hold” bread in place while buttering with one hand);
• A Spike Panel (holds vegetables or fruit on a “spike” to enable the user to peel or slice the item with the functional use of one hand)
• A Dycem / Non-Slippery Mat was the highest reported usage.
• Participants reported comparable levels of usage for a plate guard (an extra rim clipped onto a plate too, for example, prevent food from falling off the plate while eating with functional use of one hand), elastic shoelaces, a shower chair, a transfer board, and a wheelchair.

Instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) are more complicated, but they also represent an individual's ability to live independently.
Examples of IADLs:

1. Whether a person can travel or drive far or obtain their buying groceries and unpacking necessities without the assistance of others.
2. Planning and preparing different components for meals, such as buying groceries and unpacking.
3. Taking care of a person's household, cleaning up, getting rid of waste and mess, and doing laundry and arranging things.
4. Ability to manage own medicine, fill prescriptions, keep drugs up to date, and take drugs on time and in the correct dosages.
5. Interacting with others, Taking care of the household's phone calls and mail/emails
6. Managing Money and bank balances and checkbooks and paying payments on time.