Daily living skills
Definition: Daily Living Skills are needed to perform activities of daily living. Activities of Daily Living is a term used in healthcare to refer to people's daily self-care activities. Health professionals often use a person's ability or inability to perform ADLs as a measurement of their functional status. Rehabilitation Officers restore a blind or partially sighted person's Daily Living Skills.
Category: adult social care
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Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activities_of_daily_living
Services mentioning Daily living skills
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VRS assists someone regain
daily living skills they may have lost through sight problems and helps them re-learn to do things they could previously do for themselves.
The fully trained staff and volunteers at Vision Support's Halton Sensory Service
Resource Centre alongside
Deafness Resource Centre, supported by Halton Borough Council, are a fully integrated sensory service geared to meeting the diverse needs of people with sensory loss. They demonstrate and sell specialist equipment to help with
daily living. The Resource Centre has a range of information on Vision Support's services and other relevant services available locally and nationally.
'Living made easy' is an impartial
advice and information website about
daily living equipment and other aspects of independent living for
disabled people. The site includes an 'Ask Sara' section which takes you through a series of questions to identify the type of help that you need.
RP helpline is operated by volunteers all directly affected with a genetic eye disorder, who genuinely understand the issues faced with
daily living.
