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Individual Symptoms
Aggression Measure
- Rating Scale for Aggressive Behaviour in the Elderly (RAGE)
Purpose: To identify and measure aggressive behaviour within psychogeriatric populations.
Admin time: 5 min
User Friendly: High
Administered by: Intended for use by regular caregivers, including nurses.
Most Appropriate: Primary & Community Care. Commonly used by family caregivers and/or health staff who frequently care for the person with dementia to identify frequencies, types and severity of aggressive behaviours, patterns in aggression occurring over the previous three days.
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Agitation Measures
Inappropriate verbal, vocal, or motor activity that is not judged by an outside observer to result directly from the needs or confusion of the agitated individual. Agitation is not a diagnostic term, but rather a term used by clinicians for a group of symptoms that may reflect an underlying disorder.
- Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory (CMAI)
Purpose: To assess the frequency of manifestations of agitated behaviours in elderly persons with cognitive impairment.
Admin time: 10-15 min
User Friendly: High
Administered by: Clinical rating questionnaire completed by caregiver.
Most Appropriate: Acute and Residential Care. May be self-administered by a caregiver or it may be completed by interviewing a staff of family caregiver.
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- Pittsburgh Agitation Scale (PAS)
Purpose: To assess agitation in patients with dementia.
Admin time: Less than one min
User Friendly: High
Administered by: Completed by staff members during the course of their direct observation and documentation.
Most Appropriate: Nursing Home, In-patient, Residential Home, Community care.
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Apathy Measure
- Apathy Evaluation Scale (AES)
Purpose: To quantify and characterise apathy in adults.
Admin time: 20 min (Preparation required with Admin and Scoring Guidelines)
User Friendly: High
Administered by: Clinician - semi-structured interview with the "patient".
Most Appropriate: Primary, Community, and Residential Care.
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Non-Dementia Specific Measures
Patient Satisfaction
- Short Assessment of Patient Satisfaction (SAPS)
Purpose: To assess patient satisfaction with health care.
Admin time: 5 min (scoring need to reverse 4 of the 7 items)
User Friendly: High
Administered by: Clinicians with patient or informant.
Most Appropriate: Primary, Community and Residential Care
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Carer Satisfaction
- Satisfaction with Care at the End of Life in Dementia (SWC-EOLD)
Purpose: Assessment of carer satisfaction with the health care provided to the care recipient within the last year of life.
Admin time: 3 min
User Friendly: Medium due to reverse items.
Administered by: Self report questionnaire for the carer of the person with dementia.
Most Appropriate: Acute and Residential.
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Function - Generic - Non-Dementia Specific
- Functional Independence Measure (FIM)
Purpose: To assess physical disability. Focuses on the burden of care, i.e. the level of disability indicating the burden of caring for.
Admin time: 1 hour to rate and 30 min to score.
User Friendly: High
Administered by: Health Care Team
Most Appropriate: Acute, Primary, Community, and Residential Care. It is used fairly universally in hospitals for assessing patients with severe disability.
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- Barthel Index
Purpose: To assess Activities of Daily Living and Mobility (ADL).
Admin time: 10 min
User Friendly: High
Administered by: Raters in a position to observe or health care worker who can interview someone in a position to observe.
Most Appropriate: Acute, Primary, Community, and Residential Care
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- Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living
Purpose: To assess Activities of Daily Living and Mobility.
Admin time: 10-15 min
User Friendly: High
Administered by: Raters in a position to observe or health care worker who can interview someone in a position to observe.
Most Appropriate: Acute, Primary, Community, and Residential Care.
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- OARS-IADL Multi-dimensional Functional Assessment Questionnaire
Purpose: To assess Instrumental Activities of Daily Living and Mobility. These skills are considered more complex than basic activities of daily living.
Admin time: 10-15 min
User Friendly: High
Administered by: Raters interview for self-report.
Most Appropriate: Acute, Primary, Community and Residential, Measuring/tracking a person over time. Not useful for institutionalised older adults.
- EQ-5D (measure of health outcome)
Purpose: Provide a standardised, generic health-related quality of life measure for both describing and valuing health status. Designed to be used alongside other measures rather than replace them.
Admin time: 2-5 min
User Friendly: High
Administered by: Self-Report
Most Appropriate: For in clinics and face-to-face interviews. Mild to Moderate Severity of Dementia
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