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• Some elderly residents may need services to assist them with daily life. Disabilities and health conditions may cause some of there to be unable to perform the basic tasks of dally riving. The Hawaii Dousing Policy Study, 2006 Demand Survey measured need for life management assistance, help with regular daily household chores and personal care. The type of assistance measured included: • Activities of Daily Living (ADL,$) which include assistance with eating, bathing, getting dressed, getting in or out of bed, or getting to the toilet • Instrumental Activities for Daily Living (IADLs) which include preparing meals, taking medications, making phone calls or managing money • Heavy chores like cleaning inside the oven, waxing the floor, or doing yard work • Light chores litre doing the laundry, housecleaning, changing linens, or emptying the trash • Transportation including the need for an escort when going outside the house or the need for rides to doctors' appointments, shopping, etc. Table IV -7 shows the need for life management services across Hawai `i 's four counties. Honolulu had the highest need for transportation and heavy chore services. Those items seem to be more common among elderly with fewer needs people who are likely to remain in unassisted units with some chore services. The County of Kauai anchors the other end of the scale, with the State's highest need for assistance with IADLs and ADLs.s Table IV-7. Life Management Needs for Elderly Households by County Note: Base for Table is all llaivai i households with persons 62 years of age or odder and interested in moving, Persons with Disabilities The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 defines disability as a physical or mental impairment that .substantially limits one or more major life activities (i.e., caringfor one's self, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, and working). The three categories of individuals with disabilities are: 1) individuals who have a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities; 2) individuals who have a record of a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the individual's major life activities; and 3) individuals who are regarded as having such an impairment, whether they have the impairment or not. Impairments include physiological 0 1 Ibid. 2010 -14 CP Final 26 Corn a ItMmence stale Honolulu Hawaii Kauai Maui Pa that have life mgmt needs 94% 11.6% 8.80% 7.7% 9.5% Of those that have need... transportation 666% 53.3% 50.5% 571% 63.4% heavy chores 71.691a 62.8% 62.6% 66.8% 69.6% light chores 567% 48.6% 52.4% 64.8% 55.9% MDLs 50.3% 460% 58.9% 58.5% 50.6% ADDLs 30.9% 36.7% 38.6% 27.9% 31.9% Note: Base for Table is all llaivai i households with persons 62 years of age or odder and interested in moving, Persons with Disabilities The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 defines disability as a physical or mental impairment that .substantially limits one or more major life activities (i.e., caringfor one's self, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, and working). The three categories of individuals with disabilities are: 1) individuals who have a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities; 2) individuals who have a record of a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the individual's major life activities; and 3) individuals who are regarded as having such an impairment, whether they have the impairment or not. Impairments include physiological 0 1 Ibid. 2010 -14 CP Final 26