3.1
List the activities you need to perform for daily living, and the
skills that you need to do these activities
Daily life activities
Activities in daily life can include:
Personal care tasks (eg showering, grooming, toileting and personal
hygiene)
Mobility – ‘getting around’ – including road
sense, using transport
Meal and snack preparation
Laundry, house cleaning, home maintenance
Shopping
Paying bills and budgeting
Taking medication reliably
Using the telephone
Securing property and valuables
Dealing with emergencies
Organising activity for the week
What
physical and cognitive skills do you need for these activities?
All these daily
living activities require one or more of the following physical
and
cognitive skills. These skills that may be affected by a traumatic
brain injury. This will result in the person with a TBI
having difficulty performing
the daily living activities that require them:
