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Table 3.

Household Tasks Category: Example Challenges and Quotes

Activity	Challenge code and participant quote
Repairing and maintaining home	Assistance from others: “Getting somebody that I can trust to do the job is the biggest problem.” Cognitive or knowledge limitation: “There are safety issues with repairs. The tools that are required require vision.” Emotional or social: “I probably could do these things, but it just is so time consuming, so it would be frustrating for me.” Safety/pain: “Well the gardening and then cutting the grass, I wouldn’t even try to do that because I wouldn’t want to get hurt, and then changing light bulbs, I ask my aid to do that because I had tried to pull the lightbulb out of the lamp and I cut my hand earlier this year.”
Housekeeping	Visual limitation: “Because I can’t see, not knowing, I think things are clean sometimes. It may visually look dirty to you, but it feels clean to me … If the grandkid spills something on the floor, I go to wipe it up it and it feels clean to me. Then my wife comes, ‘there’s still a big spot there.’”

Activity

Challenge code and participant quote

Repairing and maintaining home

Assistance from others: “Getting somebody that I can trust to do the job is the biggest problem.”
Cognitive or knowledge limitation: “There are safety issues with repairs. The tools that are required require vision.”
Emotional or social: “I probably could do these things, but it just is so time consuming, so it would be frustrating for me.”
Safety/pain: “Well the gardening and then cutting the grass, I wouldn’t even try to do that because I wouldn’t want to get hurt, and then changing light bulbs, I ask my aid to do that because I had tried to pull the lightbulb out of the lamp and I cut my hand earlier this year.”

Housekeeping

Visual limitation: “Because I can’t see, not knowing, I think things are clean sometimes. It may visually look dirty to you, but it feels clean to me … If the grandkid spills something on the floor, I go to wipe it up it and it feels clean to me. Then my wife comes, ‘there’s still a big spot there.’”