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Lawton-Brody iADL scale; Lawton iADL scale
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The Lawton-Brody Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (iADL) scale covers eight functional domains: using the telephone, shopping, food preparation, housekeeping, laundry, transport, medication, and finances. Competence is rated according to descriptions of the person’s level of involvement/ability in each activity (e.g., for using the telephone, four levels of competence are described: operates telephone on own initiative, looks up and dials numbers, etc.; dials a few well-known numbers; answers telephone but does not dial; does not use telephone at all). It should be administered by a researcher or practitioner with relevant qualifications, with ratings derived from interview, which should take between 10 and 15 min. Activities in which a person has never participated are excluded (e.g., males are not assessed on laundry, meal preparation, and housekeeping if their wife has always taken responsibility for these...
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Fish, J. (2018). Lawton-Brody Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale. 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_1842
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