What is the NeuronUP Get dressed activity?

An interactive NeuronUP exercise that trains dressing by having users select and place garments on a silhouette according to context, order, and placement, simulating real-world dressing tasks for neurorehabilitation.

How does Get dressed relate to activities of daily living (ADLs)?

Dressing is a basic ADL per AOTA, involving garment selection, sequencing, dressing, and device use; Get dressed targets these BADL/PADL components to support independence and daily self-care.

What difficulty levels are included in Get dressed?

Three graded levels exist: easy (guided with hints and subphases), medium (select garments by category), and difficult (wardrobe with drawers and hangers), increasing complexity and decision-making demands.

Which cognitive functions does Get dressed rehabilitate?

The activity targets sequencing, memory, visual perception, and praxis (including ideational apraxia) by practicing garment order, situational selection, and spatial placement during simulated dressing tasks.

Can Get dressed be scheduled for therapy or home use?

Yes. Activities can be scheduled for individual sessions or assigned for home practice, with programmable goals and tracking to support continuity, adherence, and progress monitoring.

How does NeuronUP adapt the Get dressed activity for individual users?

Adaptive grading and multiple subphases personalize difficulty to user abilities, enabling progressive challenges tailored to specific cognitive impairments and optimizing intervention success.

Getting Dressed: An Occupational Therapy Worksheet

The occupational therapist at Residencia Plaza Real Burgos explains how to intervene with NeuronUP in the basic activity of daily living of dressing using the activity “Get Dressed”

According to the AOTA framework (1), activities of daily living are activities oriented toward taking care of one’s own body. The term also covers basic activities of daily living (BADLs) and personal activities of daily living (PADLs). These activities are essential for living in a social world, as they enable survival and well-being.

In addition, instrumental activities of daily living (1) are activities that support daily life at home and in the community and often require more complex interactions than the self-care activities involved in ADLs.

NeuronUP dressing game shows a man in a suit with shoes nearby and clothing icons around him; a checkmark marks a step. — Activity: *Get dressed* (man).

Intervening with NeuronUP in the basic activity of daily living “dressing” using the exercise “Get Dressed”

I’m going to explain how to carry out an occupational therapy intervention in the basic activity of daily living of dressing using the NeuronUP program.

According to the AOTA (1), dressing involves selecting clothing and accessories appropriate to the time of day, weather, and occasion; getting clothes from where they are stored; dressing and undressing in sequence; fastening and adjusting clothing and shoes; and putting on and removing personal devices, prostheses, or orthoses.

To intervene in dressing, we use the platform’s activity Get Dressed, which involves dressing the silhouette appropriately, taking into account both where and in what order each garment goes and where the person is going.

Work on this basic activity of daily living by levels

The activity has three levels: easy, medium, and hard. At the easy level (which is divided into 2 subphases), the user has to dress the silhouette, but first they have to open the window to see what clothes the silhouette needs. Once the silhouette appears on screen, the window opens and the situation is shown, for example, going to the theater, going to the countryside, or going to bed. Then the garments shown on the screen are put on in order. At this level, the program shows which garments are still missing. In the next subphase, all the garments are shown on screen and the user has to put them on in order.

At the medium level, the user has to select the garments according to where the person is going, and the garments appear on different racks organized into underwear, pants, sweaters, and so on.

At the hard level, a wardrobe appears with clothes in drawers or on hangers, and the user has to select the right ones for the outdoor situation shown.

Rehabilitating impaired cognitive abilities

Imagine that a person has impaired sequencing when getting dressed, ideational apraxia, memory problems, or visual perception problems, among other cognitive functions that may be impaired and affect dressing. The occupational therapist will first show them how to use the web platform and will then use this powerful tool in the intervention to rehabilitate the impaired cognitive abilities that affect the person’s occupational performance.

Scheduling sessions and working from home

Keep in mind that activities can be scheduled for individual therapy sessions or assigned as exercises to do at home. In both cases, the session goals need to be set and worked toward.

NeuronUP dressing game interface shows a virtual woman in a blue dress before a mirror, with clothing icons and a green checkmark. — Activity: *Get dressed* (woman).

Conclusion of the intervention with the basic activity of daily living Get Dressed

After the intervention, we can conclude that NeuronUP is very useful for rehabilitating cognitive functions that impair the patient’s performance of the activity. It’s also worth stressing that the activity is graded into different difficulty levels, so it can be adapted more specifically to each patient, leading to a more successful intervention.