BACKGROUND Measures reflecting occupational therapy's conceptualization of occupational performance support the profession's contribution to evidence-based practice and fiscal accountability. PURPOSE This study compared measures of performance-based activities of daily living (ADL) with principles of occupational therapy practice and intended outcomes. METHODS Using an action research study...

Objective: To describe the functional capacity for daily activities in old people with clinical rheumatoid arthritis (including juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA)) in a population based cohort. Methods: A cohort of 700 people was randomly collected from the population older than 75 years in a Finnish town. Altogether 601 persons (86%) participated. Data were collected from clinical records and...

This study examined the effectiveness of short-term, home-based occupational therapy guided by the Occupational Therapy Intervention Process Model for improving activities of daily living [ADL] with eight frail, older adults living in assistive living. A multi-method research approach was utilized to collect both quantitative and descriptive, qualitative data in the form of a retrospective exam...

Nutritional status and functional ability are mutually dependent especially in the elderly. This study examined the functional status-predictive ability of the MNA in a cross-sectional study. We analyzed the dataset of the "Survey of Health and Living Status of the Elderly in Taiwan" (SHLSET). Subjects were 2948≥65 year-old persons who were rated with the long-form (LF) and short-form (SF) MNA ...

[n the August 1994 issue of AjOr. authors Atwood, Holm, and James ("Activities of Daily Living Capabilities and Values of Long-Term-Care Facility Residents," pp. 710-716) concluded that residents of long-term-care facilities tended to report greater ability in activities of daily living (ADL) than did staff members. In my many years as an occupational therapist, [ have also found this to be tru...