Katz Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living.
Katz ADL
- What it measures
- Independence in six basic activities of daily living: bathing, dressing, toileting, transferring, continence, feeding.
- Length and format
- 6 items. binary independent/dependent per activity, summed 0-6 (clinician-rated/interview)
- Language versions
- ~30+ languages; standard in geriatric assessment internationally
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- public-domain / open
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- Reference
- Katz, S., Ford, A. B., Moskowitz, R. W., Jackson, B. A., & Jaffe, M. W. (1963). Studies of illness in the aged. The Index of ADL. JAMA, 185(12), 914-919.
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