• Standardized measure to assess current ability to conduct standard living activities including meal preparation, use of telephone, handling finances, taking medication, etc.

Content Domain - Checklist of activities that the client is able to do on a typical day ranging from dressing to preparing meals to driving an automobile to attending work. Designed for repeated assessments, possibly daily.

Operational Data Items - ID Letters/ID Numbers, Site, Sub-Provider, Date, Staff Code, Client Gender, Items 1 through 14 (Instrumental: telephone, walking, shopping, meals, housework, medicine, money; Physical: eating, dressing, appearance, walking, getting into bed, bathing, bathroom).

Citation - Huba, G. J., Melchior, L. A., Staff of The Measurement Group, and HRSA/HAB's SPNS Cooperative Agreement Steering Committee (1996). Module 25: Activities of Daily Living Form. Available: www.TheMeasurementGroup.com. Culver City, California: The Measurement Group.

Source Citations

• Adapted from work by Lawton and Brody, 1969 and Katz et al.
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