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Activities of daily living are those, such as washing, dressing, feeding, which most of us carry out without help in order to maintain our personal level of care. To perform these activities without help is the difference, to a disabled person, between being independent or dependent (Turner, 1981).
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Garner, R. (1990). Activities of daily living. In: Acute Head Injury. Therapy in Practice Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3456-7_3
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