True, but there are ways of elevating the levels at which a person functions so that the impact of M.C.I. will be smaller.
In the ICF and ICF-CY a persons functioning can be described on various levels in its relation with environmental and personal factors.
Soft skills are the cluster of personality traits and interpersonal skills that help a person function effectively in the workplace, including social graces, language and communication abilities, amenability to training, ability to get along with other people, and ability to think creatively and independently.
"Temperament is the largely inborn set of behaviors that are the style with which a person functions, not to be confused with their motivation or their developmental status and abilities," said Dr. William B. Carey, a clinical professor of pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the author of "Understanding Your Child's Temperament".
"Diet affects all areas of an individual life, from the way a person functions to their attitude and interpersonal relationships," he tells me from his sabbatical in Italy where he's involved in the Slow Food movement.
More specifically, tools that measure activity and participation are necessary to further increase our understanding about the possible effects of using an MPK on persons' functioning.
Caregivers and professionals "need to know about the different stages of this disease and how a person is functioning during these stages in their home, their family and their community," she said.
This indicator is intended to measure the impact of health on a person's functioning.
By including contextual factors, in which environmental factors are listed, the ICF-CY allows us to record the impact of an environment on a person's functioning.
The instrument is most useful for identifying how a person is functioning at the present and for observing improvement or deterioration over time.
