To take the Daily Living Skills Check, sign in first.
This page explains how it works. The tool itself is inside your SeniorThrive account.
The Daily Living Skills Check asks about the ordinary things you do for yourself each day: washing, dressing, moving around your home, eating, using the bathroom. It takes a few minutes and there is no right answer to aim for.
Where to find it
Open My Health and choose the Daily Living Skills card.
What it is
The questions follow the domains of a published clinical framework, the Katz ADL Index, rather than anything we invented. The framework is named at the bottom of your results, so you can see exactly what the questions are built on and take that name to your doctor if you want to.
One part is ours, and it is worth knowing. The published version scores each item yes or no. SeniorThrive uses a graded scale instead, so you can show where a little help would be useful rather than only whether you manage. Your results say so. When you talk to a professional, the questions come from the published framework and the way you answered them is SeniorThrive's own.
What it is not
SeniorThrive does not diagnose. Answering these questions does not tell you that you have a condition, and it does not tell you that you need help at home. It records what you said about your own day.
If your answers change over time, that change is worth mentioning to your doctor. Deciding what it means is their job, not ours and not the app's.
Answering
The questions come one at a time. Tap the answer closest to how things are for you at the moment, and the next question comes up on its own. If an answer suggests a little help would be useful, a short follow-up question about that comes first.
There is no timer and nothing is scored against a clock. If you are interrupted you can come back to it.
Answer for a typical day. Everyone has a bad morning, and one stiff shoulder on one Tuesday is not what this is asking about.
Your results
At the end you get a summary of what you reported, with the clinical framework named underneath it.
Read it as a snapshot of the day you took it, because that is what it is. The useful thing is not today's result on its own. It is running the check again in a few months and seeing whether anything moved.
Who sees it
Nobody, unless you decide otherwise. Your results sit in your account and are shared only with the people in your Circle you have chosen to share your health with, which you set under Settings, in the Privacy & Sharing tab.
Worth doing before an appointment
If you have a check-up coming, running this beforehand gives you something concrete to bring. "Here is what I said about managing at home, and here is the framework it follows" is a much easier way to start a hard conversation than trying to summarise a year from memory in a ten-minute appointment.