Assessment approaches for older people receiving social care: content and coverage

Abstract

Activities of daily living were covered to some extent on the majority of documents, as were the instrumental activities of daily living. Very few documents were designed to elicit information on the potential for rehabilitation. Whilst the majority of forms were designed to collect some information on cognitive patterns, mood state and social activity, very few were designed to collect this in any detail. Although functional activities of daily living were covered in greater detail than the other domains overall, there was enormous variability between the documents, thus hampering their ability to generate any standardized information.