Activities of Daily Living

Nursing home activity directors can use this document to review steps that could help residents with dementia improve nighttime sleep.

Nursing home activity directors can use this document to help create activities to engage nursing home residents.

This document demonstrates the MDS items that create the quality measure for the 3 ADL quality measures as well as when prognosis less than 6 months/hospice excludes the resident from the quality measure.

This video features Richard Taylor, PhD, who describes the everyday challenges of living with Alzheimer's. Dr. Taylor was diagnosed with dementia, probably of the Alzheimer's type, when he was 58. Note: TMF Health Quality Institute does not endorse or recommend any products advertised with this video.

Use this spreadsheet to proactively identify any demonstrated improvements in resident function (short stay) during their observation period and at discharge to focus quality improvement (QI) efforts.

This quality measure tip sheet reports the percent of long-stay residents who experienced a decline in independence of locomotion during the target period and provides an overview of MDS coding requirements and additional tips and assessment considerations.

This Quality Measures Tip Sheet provides an overview of the influenza vaccine (long-stay) measure, MDS coding requirements, and additional tips and assessment considerations.