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| Development of an activities of daily living scale to screen for dementia in an illiterate rural older population in India | | Author(s) | Gerda G Fillenbaum, Vijay Chandra, Mary Ganguli |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 28, no 2, March 1999 |
| Pages | pp 161-168 |
| Keywords | Mobility ; Self care capacity ; Measurement ; Evaluation ; Screening ; Illiterate persons ; Rural areas ; India. |
| Annotation | Measures of activities of daily living (ADL) developed in Western industrialised societies may not be appropriate for use in developing countries with different cultural expectations. Deterioration in ADL performance because of cognitive decline is a key marker of dementia. Therefore, as an aid in assessing the presence of dementia in rural, minimally educated older people in India, the authors developed an ADL scale for this population. Relevant items were identified, with pre-testing and refinement of procedures and scoring in four successive groups of 30 subjects each, pilot testing in a group of 100 subjects comparable to those for whom the measure is intended, administration to a representative sample of 387 people aged 55 and over, and assessment of reliability of the final measure. 35 items covering mobility, instrumental and care activities was reduced to an 11-item scale. Women, older subjects, the totally illiterate and those with poorer cognitive function performed significantly worse. In general, the scale is valid, reliable, and appropriate for assessing dementia for the type of population described. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990429005 A |
| Classmark | C4: CA: 3R: 4C: 3V: VHI: RL: 7FA |
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