Bristol Activities of Daily Living Scale.
BADLS
- What it measures
- Carer-rated everyday functional ability in people with dementia; self-care + instrumental ADLs (dressing, food, orientation, mobility, finances, etc.)
- Length and format
- 20 daily-living activities. carer 0-3 ratings per activity (independent 0 ... fully dependent 3; plus 'not applicable'), summed 0-60 (informant/observer report)
- Language versions
- Many incl. ES, IT, DE, PT, ZH, NL and others
- Normative data
- Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Bucks RS, Ashworth DL, Wilcock GK, Siegfried K. Age Ageing. 1996;25(2):113-120.
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