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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 ...

Once you enter the twilight years (somewhere between 50 and 110 years old depending upon who you ask), your life is measured by a narrow set of skills known as ADLs and IADLs and several standardized ...

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 ...

Women experience worse post-stroke functional outcomes and have different recovery patterns compared to men, a new study ...

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Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) is a multidimensional method used by geriatricians and oncologists to detect and evaluate multiple age-related problems and to plan and coordinate ...