Module

Module 3

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3.0 Aims

3.1 Living Skills

3.2 Impacts

3.3 Encouraging

3.4 Rehabilitation

3.5 Assiting

3.6 Strategies

3.7 Risks

3.8 Take home      messages

3.9 Resources

3.10 Take the        Test

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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:

  • Memory
  • Planning and organising
  • Concentration
  • Physical abilities
  • Communication
  • Energy and motivation
  • Self monitoring
  • Anger management
  • Problem solving