Toileting skills are essential for maintaining independence and overall quality of life, and occupational therapists play a crucial role in helping individuals develop and improve these skills. Toileting includes 3 main components: transfer, clothing management, and personal hygiene.

Self-feeding is part of a broader set of self-care skills. For goal setting or tracking progress with a certain task, it is important to understand how to appropriately determine the level of assistance a person requires. 

Self Feeding Overview Self-feeding is an essential daily living skill that occupational therapists often work on with individuals who may have difficulty due to physical, cognitive, or sensory impairments. To promote independence in self-feeding, therapists assess and...

Occupational therapists have a unique understanding of ADLs and IADLs including how to evaluate them and how to help people become more independent in performing them. This is what makes our role so important in a variety of settings. 

Occupational therapists are key to helping patient’s regain functionality and independence post cardiac surgery. Providing clear and practical information on how to adapt daily activities and mobility tasks is important to achieve this goal. This article provides the basic information required to explain sternal precautions and assess compliance during an evaluation.