Promoting Self-Care And Independence

Self-care refers to performing the activities of daily living that help maintain and enhance health; this can include activities like eating, getting dressed, bathing, and toileting. Self-care is important for maintaining physical, emotional, and psychological health and to help prevent existing conditions from getting worse. A client’s ability to practice self-care can be impaired by an illness or age-related changes that affect mobility, endurance, mental state, or senses like loss of vision. This can create a sense of powerlessness and hopelessness. Your clients will feel more independent when they are able to perform self-care activities and this will build their self-esteem and maintain their personal dignity.