Development of an activities of daily living scale to screen for dementia in an illiterate rural older population in India

摘要

Objective: to develop a measure of activities of daily living appropriate for use in assessing the presence of dementia in illiterate rural elderly people in India. Design: identification of relevant items, pre-testing of items and refinement of administrative procedures and Scoring in four successive groups of 30 subjects each, pilot testing in a group of 100 subjects comparable to those For whom the measure is intended, administration to a representative sample of 387 people aged 55 and older, and Assessment of the reliability of the final measure.