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Functional Autonomy Measurement System

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SMAF (from the original title “Système de Mesure de l’Autonomie Fonctionnelle”)

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The Functional Autonomy Measurement System (SMAF) contains 29 items designed to fit the World Health Organization International Classification of Functioning, disability and health (WHO ICF) classification of impairments, disabilities, and handicap to assess functional problems in geriatric populations. Items cover the following domains: activities of daily living (ADLs), mobility, communication, mental functions, and instrumental ADLs. Ability was traditionally scored at one of four levels (autonomous, needs supervision/stimulation, needs help, and dependent), but a revision of the scale added an intermediate level indicating that a function was completed independently, but with difficulty (Desrosiers et al., 1995). Ratings should be made based on a person’s performance rather than his/her potential, and should also be made in light of any environmental modifications that may reduce...

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  1. Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, 7EF, Cambridge, CB2, UK

    Jessica Fish

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  1. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Professor of Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry Virginia Commonwealth University – Medical Center Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, VCU, 980542, Richmond, Virginia, 23298-0542, USA

    Jeffrey S. Kreutzer

  2. Kessler Foundation Research Center, 1199 Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange, NJ, 07052, USA

    John DeLuca

  3. Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Neurology and Neuroscience, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey – New Jersey Medical School, New Jersey, USA

    John DeLuca

  4. Independent Practice, 564 M.O.B. East, 100 E. Lancaster Ave., Wynnewood, PA, 19096, USA

    Bruce Caplan

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Fish, J. (2011). Functional Autonomy Measurement System. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79948-3_1839

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