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| Coping with activities of daily living in different care settings | | Author(s) | Pia Laukkanen, Pertti Karppi, Eino Heikkinen |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 30, no 6, November 2001 |
| Pages | pp 489-494 |
| Keywords | Living in the community ; Self care capacity ; Domiciliary services ; Hospital services ; Nursing homes ; Evaluation ; Finland. |
| Annotation | All 5,652 people aged 65+ in health centre hospitals or nursing homes, or receiving home nursing and home help services in Central Finland were assessed using the Evergreen activities of daily living (ADL) index, which comprises 9 physical and 9 instrumental ADLs. Assessments of functional capacity were obtained for nearly all subjects: only 33 forms were returned with incomplete data. The mean ADL sum score (range 0-54) was lowest for women receiving home nursing (17.3) and highest for women in long-term care at health centre hospitals (48.4). Low scores described good, and high scores poor functional capacity. Age showed no association with the mean ADL sum score in any of the care settings. The Evergreen activities of daily living index was easy to use, and successfully distinguishes between people in different care settings. Policies of assigning older people to different settings appear to be sound and sensible as the main determining criterion in level of functional capacity rather than age. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020121210 A |
| Classmark | K4: CA: N: LD: LHB: 4C: 76L |
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