ADLs measure physical independence and ADT applies the same logic to thinking.

AI may outsources our daily cognitive acts, eroding the capacity to think alone.

Five practices—read, write, decide, disagree, stay—help keep your mind your own.

In medicine, activities of daily living or ADLs are among the most reliable indicators of a patient's functional health. Can they dress themselves? Feed themselves? Move through their day with independence? These aren't exotic skills, they're the baseline to living our lives. And when they start to deteriorate, clinicians will pay attention, because the erosion of ADL's can be a slippery slope. And ADLs matter precisely because they're ordinary and often — no one notices them until they're gone. By then, something larger and clinically significant might be involved.

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