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| Opening up to the Katz Index | | Author(s) | Steven Dowd, Ruth Davidhizar |
| Journal title | Elderly Care, vol 11, no 1, February/March 1999 |
| Pages | pp 9-12 |
| Keywords | Self care capacity ; Mobility ; Evaluation ; Nursing. |
| Annotation | The Katz Index, designed in 1963, provides a useful tool for assessment of activities of daily living (ADLs), examining six domains: eating (feeding), bathing, dressing, transfer, continence, and toileting. The Index is considered to be reliable and valid in terms of measuring physical function, for rehabilitation and recuperating clients. This article discusses its applicability to a variety of settings serving older adults. Its simplicity is both a strength and a weakness: instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) are not evaluated. Whilst less useful in rehabilitation, it is still a useful tool with which nurses should be familiar when seeking a way to measure functional ability of older adults. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990210009 A |
| Classmark | CA: C4: 4C: LQ |
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