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Disability Assessment for Dementia

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The disability assessment for dementia (DAD) is an informant-rated questionnaire or structured interview consisting of 40 items regarding the subject’s involvement in activities of daily living (ADLs). Seventeen items address basic ADLs (hygiene, dressing, continence, and eating), and 23 items relate to Instrumental ADLs (meal preparation, telephoning, going on an outing, finance and correspondence, medications, and leisure and housework). Items can be categorized as part of initiation, planning and organization, and effective performance subscales, though a total score is used most frequently. Non-applicable items (e.g., those that a patient did not participate in even before the onset of their illness) are excluded from scoring, with the final scores being converted to a percentage. Scores thus have a potential range from 0% to 100%, with higher percentage scores representing greater competence in ADLs. The assessment is designed to be conducted by a trained...

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  1. Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK

    Jessica Fish

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  1. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

    Jeffrey S. Kreutzer

  2. Kessler Foundation, Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange, NJ, USA

    John DeLuca

  3. Independent Practice, Wynnewood, PA, USA

    Bruce Caplan

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Fish, J. (2018). Disability Assessment for Dementia. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_1800

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