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Assessing the ADL Functioning of Persons With Alzheimer's Disease: Comparison of Family Informants' Ratings and Performance-Based Assessment Findings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2005

Susan E. Doble ,
John D. Fisk  and
Kenneth Rockwood
Susan E. Doble
Affiliation:
School of Occupational Therapy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
John D. Fisk
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Department of Psychology, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Kenneth Rockwood
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Abstract

The activities of daily living (ADL) functioning of 26 subjects with Alzheimer's disease was measured using the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS) and family informants' Older Americans Resources and Services (OARS) Activities of Daily Living (ADL) reports. Concordance with a clinician's ratings of subjects' level of ADL functioning was achieved for 77% of the subjects based on their AMPS ADL process ability measures and for 54% for the subjects based on their family informants' OARS ADL ratings. In cases of discordance, subjects' AMPS ADL process ability measures were just as likely to overestimate (11.5%) as to underestimate (11.5%) subjects' ADL functioning. In contrast, 46% of the informants overestimated their family members' ADL functioning, and this was more likely to occur when subjects' cognitive impairment was mild.

Type
Dementia
Information
International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , December 1999 , pp. 399 - 409
Copyright
© 1999 International Psychogeriatric Association

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