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| The Barthel Activities of Daily Living Index: self-reporting versus actual performance in the old-old [75 years and above] | | Author(s) | Gary Sinoff |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 45, no 7, July 1997 |
| Pages | pp 832-836 |
| Keywords | Self care capacity ; Mobility ; Evaluation ; Over 70s ; Living in the community ; In-patients ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The Barthel Index for assessing activities of daily living (ADL) was developed particularly for young stroke patients, but it now has a wider application in the geriatric assessment profile. This study tested the validity of the Barthel Index by self-report in 126 people aged 75 years and over, both geriatric medical inpatients and subjects from the community, during a 3-month period. A measure of the magnitude of discrepancy between the two methods (discrepancy score) was calculated as the difference between self-report and performance total scores. Findings revealed that the use of the Barthel Index by self-reporting had its limitations in people aged 75 years and over, and in particular geriatric in-patients aged 85 years and over. The authors suggest that older people may have to be assessed by the rehabilitation services using a performance-based measure or a different self-report test for documenting their activities of daily living, bearing in mind that self-reported and performance-based measures capture physical abilities differently. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980917403 A |
| Classmark | CA: C4: 4C: BBK: K4: LF7: 7T |
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