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Include typically the following activities: sitting, putting on socks and shoes, getting in/out of a chair/ car, standing, walking; in general these activities are scored using an ordinal scale, ranging from e.g. “0”, no impairment, to “4”, total inability to perform the activity.
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Nahler, G. (2009). activities of daily living (ADL). In: Dictionary of Pharmaceutical Medicine. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-89836-9_21
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