Assessment of Older People: Self-Maintaining and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living
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..."Moderate" physical disability was defined as self-reported difficulty in performing three or more of the six physical activity items on the IADL scale ( 13 ): walking distances, shopping for groceries, preparing meals, doing housework, making home repairs, and doing laundry....
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...The Activities of Daily Living (12) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (LADL) ( 13 ) scales were used to measure self-reported disability....
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...They take some comfort, however, in the fact that one scale, the Physical Self-Maintenance Scale (PSMS), is largely a scale developed and used by other investigators (Lowenthal, 1964), which was adapted for use in our own institution....
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...Among the many scales for measuring activities of daily living that have been devised, the one developed at the Langley-Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute by Simon, Lowenthal, and their associates (Lowenthal, 1964) has frequently been utilized by later investigators....
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