Caregiving
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Caregiver
Burden Scale (FamilyPracticeNotebook.com) |
Cognitive Ability
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Clinical
Dementia Rating Scale
Mini-Cog Assessment Form
Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE)
MMSE (www.minimental.com)
MMSE (PAR - owns the rights to the MMSE)
MMSE (Wikipedia)
Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Guidelines
(Alzheimer Research
Forum)
Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis (Alzheimer's Association) |
Dr. Reisberg's
Alzheimer's Assessment Tools:
Alzheimer's Course
Graph
Functional Assessment Staging Tool (FAST)
Functional Assessment Staging Tool (FAST)
(Geriatric
Resources, Inc)
Global Deterioration Scale (side 1)
(GDS side 1)
Global Deterioration Scale (side 2)
(GDS side 2)
Global Deterioration Scale (GDS) (Geriatric
Resources, Inc) |
Driving
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AAA Aggressive Driving Quiz
AAA Drowsy Driving Quiz
AARP Driver Safety
Program
Brochures from the NHTSA
Physician's Guide to Assessing and Counseling Older Drivers
|
Functional Ability
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Barthel
Index (The Internet
Stroke Center)
Get Up and Go Test
(FamilyPracticeNotebook.com)
Global
Assessment of Functioning (GAF) Scale
Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) Scale (Wikipedia)
Instrumental Activities of
Daily Living Scale (Lawton IADL)
Karnofsky Performance Scale (commonly used for assessing terminally ill patients)
Karnofsky Performance
Status (original scale defined by Karnofsky in 1949)
Katz ADL
(FamilyPracticeNotebook.com)
Functional Assessment Instrument Comparison
(George Washington
University Center to Improve Care of the Dying) |
Hearing
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Hearing Handicap
Inventory |
Home Safety
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Home Safety Checklist
(courtesy of the National
Safety Council) |
Mood
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 Cornell
Scale for Depression in Dementia
Form 1 |
Form 2
Geriatric Depression Scale
(Brink/Yesavage ) | Short
Form |
Other Languages |
Neurologic Function
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Abnormal
Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS) (to check for Parkinsonian
side effects of neuroleptic medications)
(The Virtual En-psych-lopedia
by Dr. Bob)
NIH
Stroke Scale (The
Internet Stroke Center)
Parkinson's Disease
(National Parkinson
Foundation)
Stroke Assessment Scales
(The Internet Stroke Center) |
Nutritional Status
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Nutrition Checklist
for Older Adults ("DETERMINE" mnemonic) |
Definitions (from the Nutrition
Screening Initiative, AAFP/ADA/NCOA) |
Overall Health
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Aging
Quiz (compiled by Linda M. Woolf, PhD, Webster University,
Aging &
Human Rights page)
Healthy Habit Test |
Pain
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Challenges in Pain Management at the End of Life, American
Family Physician, 10/1/2001
Pain Assessment (from
Partners Against
Pain)
Pain
Assessment Tools (from
City of Hope)
Pain Assessment Tools (from UCLA - for adults and children,
multilingual, both visual and analog scales) |
Palliative/Hospice Care
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Palliative Care Assessment & Research Tools
(DyingWell.com)
TIME (Toolkit of Instruments to Measure End-of-life
Care) |
Psychosis
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Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale
(BPRS)
Pittsburgh Agitation
Scale |
Quality of Life
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MISSOULA-VITAS QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX (MVQOLI)
(by Ira Byock MD) |
25
Question Version |
15 Question
Version
Health & Quality of Life Outcomes
(free online journal)
Patient-Reported Outcome and
Quality of life Instruments Database (ProQolid)
(extensive compilation)
SF-36
|
Skin
Integrity
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Braden Scale
Braden Scale Protocols
Braden Scale Turning
Schedules
Braden Scale Charting
Braden Scale Web Site
(www.bradenscale.com) |
Urinary Function
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American Urological
Association Prostatism Scale
Urinary Incontinence--Treatable Causes
("DIAPPERS"
mnemonic) |
