Tasks such as shopping, cooking, and cleaning the home are referred to as which type of activities?

Tasks such as shopping, cooking, and cleaning the home are referred to as which type of activities?

• A. IADLs
• B. ADLs
• C. Quality of Life
• D. Functional Ability

Answer: (A)

Understanding how we classify daily tasks helps explain why shopping, cooking, and cleaning are grouped together. Basic self-care tasks—like bathing, dressing, eating, transferring, toileting, and maintaining continence—are called activities of daily living. The tasks listed—shopping, cooking, and cleaning—are more complex and require planning, decision-making, and organizing routines. These are known as instrumental activities of daily living, the skills needed to live independently in the community. If someone has trouble with these, it often signals a need for support even if their basic self-care remains intact. The other options don’t fit because quality of life describes overall well-being, not a type of task, and functional ability is a broad term for overall capacity rather than a specific category of activities.

Understanding how we classify daily tasks helps explain why shopping, cooking, and cleaning are grouped together. Basic self-care tasks—like bathing, dressing, eating, transferring, toileting, and maintaining continence—are called activities of daily living. The tasks listed—shopping, cooking, and cleaning—are more complex and require planning, decision-making, and organizing routines. These are known as instrumental activities of daily living, the skills needed to live independently in the community. If someone has trouble with these, it often signals a need for support even if their basic self-care remains intact. The other options don’t fit because quality of life describes overall well-being, not a type of task, and functional ability is a broad term for overall capacity rather than a specific category of activities.