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.
The performance of the basic activities of self care, such as dressing, ambulation, or eating.
| Descriptor ID |
D000203
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.760.169.063.500.067 E02.831.067 I03.050 N02.421.784.110
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| Concept/Terms |
Activities of Daily Living- Activities of Daily Living
- ADL
- Activities, Daily Living
- Activity, Daily Living
- Daily Living Activities
- Daily Living Activity
- Living Activities, Daily
- Living Activity, Daily
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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.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2004 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 2005 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2006 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2007 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 3 | 10 | 13 |
| 2010 | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| 2011 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2012 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 2013 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 2014 | 1 | 7 | 8 |
| 2015 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2018 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2019 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2020 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2021 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Activities of Daily Living" by people in Profiles.
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Jia H, Lubetkin EI. Comparing Potential Contributors of Health-Related Quality of Life and Mortality Among US Older Adults. Med Decis Making. 2025 Aug; 45(6):675-689.
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Martin P, Poon LW, Lee G, Obhi HK, Willcox BJ, Masaki KH. From 70 to 100: The Kuakini Hawaii Centenarian Study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2025 Jun 10; 80(7).
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Rush J, Charles ST, Willroth EC, Cerino ES, Piazza JR, Almeida DM. Changes in daily stress reactivity and changes in physical health across 18 years of adulthood. Ann Behav Med. 2025 Jan 04; 59(1).
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Thomas PA, Bolton SH, Ontiveros F, Mattson WI, Vannatta K, Lo W, Wilde EA, Cunningham WA, Yeates KO, Hoskinson KR. Exploring the link among injury severity, white matter connectivity and psychosocial outcomes in pediatric TBI: a probabilistic tractography approach. Int J Neurosci. 2025 Dec; 135(12):1395-1407.
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Assari S. Black Americans' Diminished Health Returns of Professional Occupations: A Thirty-Year Follow-Up Study of Middle-Aged and Older Adults. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2025 Aug; 12(4):2103-2114.
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Wang KM, Coleman AL, Pan D, Yu F, Tseng VL. Population-Level Associations Between Visual Impairment and Functional Difficulties in California. Ophthalmic Epidemiol. 2025 Feb; 32(1):9-17.
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Hines D, Armstrong-Heimsoth A, Schoen SA. A Pilot Study of Idiopathic Toe Walking: Measures and Outcomes. Occup Ther Health Care. 2024 Jul; 38(3):723-749.
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Jia H, Lubetkin EI. Association between self-reported body mass index and active life expectancy in a large community-dwelling sample of older U.S. adults. BMC Geriatr. 2022 04 09; 22(1):310.
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Malagaris I, Mehta HB, Goodwin JS. Trends and variation in benzodiazepine use in nursing homes in the USA. Eur J Clin Pharmacol. 2022 Mar; 78(3):489-496.
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Medina-Cintr?n N, Mart?nez I, P?rez-R?os N, Berr?os-L?pez Y, Vil? LM. Clinical Manifestations and Outcomes in Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drug-Naive Adult Patients with Chronic Chikungunya Arthritis. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2021 03 08; 104(5):1741-1746.