Assessments: ADLs/Living Skills

Question 1

Focus of: Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS)

Answer 1

Focus: assessment of the effectiveness, efficiency, or safety of a person’s ADL task performance, including IADL, PADL, and some leisure activities.

Question 2

Method for: Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS)

Answer 2

Interview of client to determine 3-5 relevant and sufficiently challenging tasks.
Client selects 2-3 of those tasks
Therapists observes client’s quality of performance of said tasks according to standardized task guidelines
In natural environment or closely simulated environment.

Question 3

What 10 things are measured on Barthel Index?

Answer 3

Feeding, transferring, personal grooming, toileting, bladder control, bowel control, bathing, dressing, walking on level ground, stairs

Question 4

Focus of: Cognitive Performance Test (CPT)

Answer 4

Assessment of six functional ADL tasks that require cognitive processing skills based on Allen’s Cognitive Disabilities model

Question 5

The Cognitive Performance Test measures what 6 functional ADL tasks?

Answer 5

Dressing, Shopping, Making Toast, Making a Phone Call, Washing, Traveling

Question 6

Method for: Cognitive Performance Test (CPT)

Answer 6

Standardized procedures followed for each task
Evaluator providing demo, reassurance, cueing, more direction, and/or the addition or elimination of sensory cues if needed.

Question 7

The FIM measures what 6 performance areas?

Answer 7

Self-care (toileting,bathing, dressing, and eating)
Sphincter control
Mobility (bed/chair/wheelchair, toilet, and tub/shower transfers)
Locomotion (walking, stairs, using a w/c)
Communication (both receptive and comprehension)
Social cognition (soc interaction, memory, and problem solving)

Question 8

Focus: Katz Index of ADLs

Answer 8

Assessment of level of independent functioning and assistance needed in six ADL areas

Question 9

The KATZ measures what 6 performance areas?

Answer 9

Bathing
Dressing
Toileting
Transfers
Continence
Feeding

Question 10

Method: Katz Index of ADLs

Answer 10

Observation OR interview

Question 11

Population appropriate for: Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS)

Answer 11

Anyone w/ developmental age older than 2 w/any diagnosis that causes ADL limitations

Question 12

Population appropriate for: Barthel

Answer 12

Adults and elders w/ phys disabilities and/or chronic illnesses - typically used in medical model settings

Question 13

Population appropriate for: Cognitive Performance Test (CPT)

Answer 13

Adults and elders w/ psychiatric and/or cognitive dysfunction.

Question 14

Population appropriate for: FIM

Answer 14

Adults w/disabilities who are not functionally independent

Question 15

Population appropriate for: WeeFIM

Answer 15

Children from 6 mo.-7 y developmentally (not chronologically)

Question 16

Population appropriate for: Katz Index of ADLs

Answer 16

Adults and elders with cognitive dysfunction - initially developed for those w/senile dementia of Alzheimer’s type, but its use has expanded.

Question 17

Focus: Klein-Bell Activities of Daily Living Scale (K-B scale)

Answer 17

Assesment of Ind. functioning in ADL as evidenced by achievement of 170 items in six areas

Question 18

What six areas does the Klein-Bell Activities of Daily Living Scale assess?

Answer 18

Dressing
Elimination
Mobility
Bathing/hygiene
Eating
Emergency telephone communication

Question 19

Method: Klein-Bell Activities of Daily Living Scale

Answer 19

Observation. Assistive devices are allowed

Question 20

Population appropriate for: Klein-Bell Activities of Daily Living Scale

Answer 20

Age 6 mo. - eldery w/any diagnosis

Question 21

Focus: Kohlman Evaluation of Living Skills (KELS)

Answer 21

Determining an individual’s knowledge and/or performance of 17 basic living skills in 5 main areas

Question 22

Method: Kohlman Evaluation of Living Skills (KELS)

Answer 22

Standardized instructions for some tests, standardized questions to obtain info on performance of other tasks

Question 23

Population appropriate for: Kohlman Evaluation of Living Skills (KELS)

Answer 23

Erbody.

Question 24

What 5 areas are assessed in the KELS

Answer 24

Self-care, 
Safety and health, 
Money management, 
Community mobility and telephone, 
Employment and leisure participation

Question 25

Focus: Milwaukee Evaluation of Daily Living Skills (MEDLS)

Answer 25

Assessment of actual OR SIMULATED perfomance of basic living skills needed to function in the individual’s expected environment.

Question 26

Method: Milwaukee Evaluation of Daily Living Skills (MEDLS)

Answer 26

Screening tool used to determine which areas to focus on. Standardized instructions and time limit

Question 27

Population appropriate for: Milwaukee Evaluation of Daily Living Skills (MEDLS)

Answer 27

Originally developed for adults w/chronic mental illness and who have resided for at least 6 mo. in a psychiatric hospital, halfway house, group home, or SNF.

Question 28

Focus: Routine Task Inventory (RTI)

Answer 28

Measures an individual’s level of impairment in ADLs according to Allen’s Model of Cognitive Disabilities

Question 29

What 6 areas are assessed in the Routine Task Inventory

Answer 29

Grooming, dressing, bathing, walking, feeding, and toileting

Question 30

Method: Routine Task Inventory

Answer 30

3 methods can be used, observation of performance, self-report (if client is cognitively capable), report by caregiver.

Question 31

Population appropriate for: Routine Task Inventory

Answer 31

Adults and elders with cognitive impairments.