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The Katz Activities of Daily Living (ADL) scale is a widely used graded instrument that assesses six primary and psychosocial functions: bathing, dressing, going to toilet, transferring, feeding, and continence. Katz and collaborators found that these six activities have a hierarchical order in which the most complex functions are lost first. The instrument was originally developed as a measure of function to be used in objective evaluations of chronically ill and aging populations and is now used to evaluate a wide range of groups and settings.
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Functionality is central to the health of older adults, and the loss of functionality is a result of both the biological processes of aging and the social environment within which those changes are experienced. Longitudinal...
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Fuentes-García, A. (2014). Katz Activities of Daily Living Scale. In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_1572
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