Instrumental Activities of Daily Living

Bushnik, Tamara

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Tamara Bushnik⁴

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IADLs

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Instrumental activities of daily living are a subset of activities of daily living (ADLs). They include activities that are required to live independently, such as cooking and shopping. They are contrasted with basic activities of daily living (bADLs), which include basic self-care functions such as eating and bathing.

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Inter-Hospital Research and Knowledge Translation, Rusk Rehabilitation, New York, NY, USA
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Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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Bushnik, T. (2018). Instrumental Activities of Daily Living. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_1786

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