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Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale.

Lawton IADL

What it measures
Independence in eight instrumental activities of daily living: telephone use, shopping, food preparation, housekeeping, laundry, transport, medication management, finances.
Length and format
8 items. binary or ordinal per activity, commonly summed 0-8 (clinician-rated/interview)
Language versions
~30+ languages; standard in geriatric and dementia 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
Lawton, M. P., & Brody, E. M. (1969). Assessment of older people: Self-maintaining and instrumental activities of daily living. The Gerontologist, 9(3), 179-186.

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