For many people, as they age, the "little things" that once felt effortless like buttoning a shirt, grabbing a jar from the pantry or remembering a morning pill, start to feel like major hurdles.

What are Activities of Daily Living -ADL? a set of routine tasks that people perform daily as part of general maintenance and care. Many people, as they get older, begin to lose the capacity to ...

Dear Carol: My mom was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. While she’s pretty normal now other than some short-term memory loss and occasional confusion, I want to be prepared to help her as she ...

Ask doctors, nurses, or social workers what family caregivers do, and the response is likely to be: “Help the patient with ADLs [activities of daily living] and IADLs [instrumental activities of daily ...