Improving the Validity of Activity of Daily Living Dependency Risk Assessment

Conclusion:
Two relatively brief models, one that requires an in-person assessment and one that does not, had excellent validity for predicting incident ADL dependency but did not significantly improve the predictive validity of the best fitting interview-based models.

Source: Journal of Applied Gerontology - March 12, 2015 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Clark, D. O., Stump, T. E., Tu, W., Miller, D. K. Tags: Original Manuscripts Source Type: research