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Activities of Daily Living

"Activities of Daily Living" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The performance of the basic activities of self care, such as dressing, ambulation, or eating.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Activities of Daily Living" by people in this website by year, and whether "Activities of Daily Living" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 158 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 13 publications in 2020
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