Assessments
This assessment was developed to assess for frailty risk in older adults using items collected in existing nursing datasets. This maximizes the use of data collected during nursing assessment and reduces testing fatigue for the patient, family, and nurse. It is a 10-item assessment instrument with scores ranging from 0-10. A score of 0 indicates no frailty; a score of 1-3 indicates frailty risk; and a score of 4 or greater indicates frailty.
What is the The Frailty Index for Elders (FIFE)?
This assessment is an easy-to-use tool that can quickly screen for caregiver strain in long-term caregivers. The tool has 13 questions that measure strain related to care provision.
What is the The Modified Caregiver Strain Index (MCSI)?
This assessment is considered the most appropriate instrument to assess functional status as a measurement of the client’s ability to perform activities of daily living independently. Clinicians typically use the tool to assess function and detect problems in performing activities of daily living and to plan care accordingly.
What is the Katz Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living (ADL)?
This assessment is an appropriate instrument to assess independent living skills. The instrument is most useful for identifying how a person is functioning at the present time and for identifying improvement or deterioration over time, and considers 8 domains of function measured.
What is the The Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) Scale?
This assessment is an efficient and effective instrument for obtaining the information necessary to prevent health alterations in the older adult patient, and has an easy to remember acronym to recall the common problems it is assesses.
What is the Fulmer SPICES assessment?