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The Revised Observed Tasks of Daily Living
— a performance-based assessment of everyday problem solving in older adults | | Author(s) | Manfred Diehl, Michael Marsiske, Ann L Horgas |
| Journal title | Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol 24, no 3, June 2005 |
| Pages | pp 211-230 |
| Source | http://www.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Mobility ; Self care capacity ; Cognitive processes ; Performance ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The Revised Observed Tasks of Daily Living (OTDL-R), a performance-based test of everyday problem solving, was administered to a sample of older people living in the community. Participants were 170 older Americans (141 women, 29 men; 53 Whites, 73 non-Whites) from the ACTIVE Pilot Study. The OTDL-R includes new tasks incorporating medications use, telephone use and financial management. The OTDL-R had a desirable range of difficult and satisfactory internal consistency and observed relatively invariant patterns of relations between measured tasks and the underlying latent dimensions they represent across White and non-White sub-samples. The OTDL-R also correlated significantly with age, education, self-rated health, a pencil-and-paper measure of everyday problem solving, and measures of basic cognitive functioning. Thus, the OTDL-R is a reliable and valid measure of everyday problem solving that has great practical utility for assessing performance in diverse populations. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050610201 A |
| Classmark | C4: CA: DA: 5H: 4C: 7T |
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