Assessment Tools
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Below you will find the assessments organized into three categories: Biological, Psychological, Social, with a section for Additional Assessment Methods at the bottom. Click on each assessment for more information. A printer-friendly page will display the Assessment Summary Sheet. Please allow pop-up windows in order to view the summaries.
- 20-metre walk/20-metre shuttle walk/Self-paced walking test
- Activities-Specific Balance Confidence (ABC) Scale
- Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales (AIMS)
- Barthel Index (Formerly the Maryland Disability Index)
- Berg Balance Scale (BBS)
- Blessed - Dementia Scale (BLS-D), Blessed-Ross Dementia Scale, or Newcastle Dementia Scale
- Box & Blocks Test
- Brief Oral Health Status Examination (BOHSE)
- Brief Pain Inventory (BPI)
- Cumulative Illness Rating Scale (CIRS)
- Dementia Rating ScaleTM (DRS) Revised
- Dynamic Gait Index (DGI)
- EuroQoL Quality of Life Scale (EQ-5D)
- Exercise Assessment and Screening for You (EASY) Tool
- Falls Efficacy Scale (FES)
- Frail Elderly Functional Assessment (FEFA)
- Fracture and Mortality (FRAMO) Index
- Functional Activities Questionnaire (FAQ)
- Functional Autonomy Measurement System (SMAF)
- Functional Assessment Staging Test (FAST)
- Functional Independence Measure (FIM)
- Functional Living Index – Cancer (FLIC)
- Functional Pain Scale (FPS)
- Functional Reach Test (FRT)
- Geriatric Functional Rating Scale (GFRS)
- Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) also known as Glasgow Coma Score
- Hendrich II Fall Risk Model
- Home Assessment Profile (HAP)
- Injury Severity Scale, Injury Severity Score (ISS)
- Iowa Pain Thermometer
- Katz Index of Activities of Daily Living (Katz Index of ADL)
- Lawton And Brody Instrumental Activities Of Daily Living (IADL) Scale
- Lower Extremity Functional Scale (LEFS)
- McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ)
- McMaster Health Index Questionnaire (MHIQ)
- Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
- Medical Outcomes Study Pain Measures (MOS)
- Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA)
- Modified Barthel Index
- Morse Fall Risk Assessment Tool (MFS)
- Multilevel Assessment Instrument (MAI)
- Nottingham Health Profile (NHP)
- Older Americans Resources and Services (OARS) Multidimensional Functional Assessment Questionnaire (OMFAQ)
- Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire
- Pain Assessment Checklist for Seniors with Limited Ability to Communicate (PACSLAC)
- Pain Assessment for the Dementing Elderly (PADE)
- Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly (PASE)
- Physical and Mental Impairment-of-Function Evaluation (PAMIE)
- Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q)
- Physical Self-Maintenance Scale (PSMS)
- Quality of Well-being (QWB) Scale
- Rapid Assessment of Physical Activity (RAPA)
- Rapid Disability Rating Scale (RDRS-2)
- Self-Evaluation of Life Function (SELF) Scale
- Sickness Impact Profile (SIP)
- Sit-to-Stand
- Survey of Activities and Fear of Falling in the Elderly (SAFFE)
- Timed up and Go (TUG)
- Tinetti Performance Oriented Mobility Assessment (POMA)
- Visual Analogue Pain Rating Scale (VAS)
- Vulnerable Elders Survey (VES-13)
- Western Ontario McMaster Osteo-Arthritis Index (WOMAC)
- Yale Physical Activity Survey (YPAS)
- Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment Scale (ADAS) – 21 item version
- Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales (AIMS)
- Arthritis Self-Efficacy Scale (ASES)
- Back Pain Classification Scale (BPCS)
- Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
- Blessed - Dementia Scale (BLS-D), Blessed-Ross Dementia Scale, or Newcastle Dementia Scale
- Brief Cognitive Rating Scale (BCRS)
- Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI)
- Cambridge Mental Disorders of the Elderly Examination (CAMDEX)
- Caregivers' Aspirations, Realities and Expectations (CARE) Tool
- Carroll Rating Scale for Depression (CRS)
- Centre for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D)
- Changes in Advanced Dementia Scale (CADS)
- Clifton Assessment Procedures for the Elderly (CAPE)
- Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR)
- Clock-drawing Test
- Cognitive Assessment Scale for the Elderly (CASE)
- Cognitive Capacity Screening Examination (CCSE)
- Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory (CMAI)
- Confusion Assessment Method (CAM)
- Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia (CSDD)
- Dementia Rating Scale TM (DRS) Revised
- Dementia Signs and Symptoms Scale (DSS)
- ENRICH (Evaluation and Nurturing Relationship Issues, Communication and Happiness) Marital Satisfaction Scale (EMS)
- EuroQoL Quality of Life Scale (EQ-5D)
- Expectations Regarding Aging Survey (ERA – 38)
- Family Preferences Index (FPRI)
- Functional Assessment Staging Test (FAST)
- Functional Autonomy Measurement System (SMAF)
- Functional Living Index – Cancer (FLIC)
- General Well-Being (GWB) Schedule
- Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS)
- Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) Modified
- Global Deterioration Scale (GDS)
- Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD)
- Illness Behaviour Questionnaire (IBQ)
- Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly (IQCODE)
- Information-Memory-Concentration Test (ICM)
- Inventory of Complicated Grief (ICG)
- Kingston Standardized Cognitive Assessment-Revised (KSCA-R)
- Life Review and Experiencing Form
- Life Satisfaction Index (LSI)
- MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool – Treatment (MacCAT-TR) and Clinical Research (MacCAT-CR)
- McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ)
- McMaster Health Index Questionnaire (MHIQ)
- Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
- Memorial Delirium Assessment Scale (MDAS)
- Mental Status Questionnaire (MSQ)
- Mini-mental Status Examination (MMSE)
- Modified Care Giver Strain Index (MCSI)
- Montgomery-Ĺsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS)
- Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)
- Multilevel Assessment Instrument (MAI)
- Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI)
- Nottingham Health Profile (NHP)
- Older Americans Resources and Services (OARS) Multidimensional Functional Assessment Questionnaire (OMFAQ)
- Outcome Expectations for Exercise (OEE) Scale
- Pain and Distress Scale (PAD)
- Pain Assessment for the Dementing Elderly (PADE)
- Philadelphia Geriatric Center Morale Scale (PGCMS)
- Physical and Mental Impairment-of-Function Evaluation (PAMIE)
- Pittsburgh Agitation Scale (PAS)
- Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)
- Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Heath Disorders (PRIME-MD®)
- Psychogeriatric Dependency Rating Scale (PGDRS)
- Quality of Life in Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment (QOL-AD)
- Rapid Disability Rating Scale (RDRS-2)
- Satisfaction With Life Survey (SWLS)
- Self Efficacy for Exercise (SEE) Scale
- Self-Evaluation of Life Function (SELF) Scale
- Short Cognitive Performance Test (SKT)
- Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire (SMSQ)
- Sickness Impact Profile (SIP)
- Taylor’s Manifest Anxiety Scale (TMAS) – 50 item version
- Zarit Burden Interview – (BI) / (ZBI)
- Affect Balance Scale (ABS)
- Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales (AIMS)
- Blessed - Dementia Scale (BLS-D), Blessed-Ross Dementia Scale, or Newcastle Dementia Scale
- Care-Giving Burden Scale (CBS)
- Caregiver Burden Inventory (CBI)
- Caregiver Burden Measures
- Caregivers' Aspirations, Realities and Expectations (CARE) Tool
- Cost of Care Index (CCI)
- Duke Social Support and Stress Scale (DUSOCS)
- ENRICH (Evaluation and Nurturing Relationship Issues, Communication and Happiness) Marital Satisfaction Scale (EMS)
- Family Impact Survey
- Family Preferences Index (FPRI)
- Functional Assessment Staging Test (FAST)
- Functional Living Index – Cancer (FLIC)
- Lawton And Brody Instrumental Activities Of Daily Living (IADL) Scale
- Lubben Social Network Scale–Revised (LSNS-R)
- McMaster Health Index Questionnaire (MHIQ)
- Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
- Modified Care Giver Strain Index (MCSI)
- Multilevel Assessment Instrument (MAI)
- Nottingham Health Profile (NHP)
- Older Americans Resources and Services (OARS) Multidimensional Functional Assessment Questionnaire (OMFAQ)
- Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire
- Physical and Mental Impairment-of-Function Evaluation (PAMIE)
- Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Heath Disorders (PRIME-MD®)
- Quality of Well-being (QWB) Scale
- Self-Evaluation of Life Function (SELF) Scale
- Sickness Impact Profile (SIP)
- Social Relationship Scale (SRS)
- Social Support Questionnaire (SSQ)
