{"id":2411,"date":"2011-11-01T14:07:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T14:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/gerik\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T20:28:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T20:28:45","slug":"gerik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/gerik\/","title":{"rendered":"Katz Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Index of Activities of Daily Living (ADL) encompasses six basic human functions: bathing, dressing, toileting, transfer, continence, and feeding. It provides an objective method of classifying heterogeneous groups of people with chronic illnesses, disabilities and impairments, and of describing their health needs and outcomes.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Katz Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living (ADL)<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>ACTIVITIES<\/strong><br \/>\nPoints (1 or 0)<\/td>\n<td><strong>INDEPENDENCE: (1 POINT)<\/strong><br \/>\nNO supervision, direction or personal assistance<\/td>\n<td><strong>DEPENDENCE: (0 POINTS)<\/strong><br \/>\nWITH supervision, direction, personal assistance or total care<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BATHING<\/td>\n<td>(1 POINT) Bathes self completely or needs help in bathing only a single part of the body such as the back, genital area or disabled extremity.<\/td>\n<td>(0 POINTS) Needs help with bathing more than one part of the body, getting in or out of the tub or shower. Requires total bathing.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DRESSING<\/td>\n<td>(1 POINT) Gets clothes from closets and drawers and puts on clothes and outer garments complete with fasteners. May have help tying shoes.<\/td>\n<td>(0 POINTS) Needs help with dressing self or needs to be completely dressed.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>TOILETING<\/td>\n<td>(1 POINT) Goes to toilet, gets on and off, arranges clothes, cleans genital area without help.<\/td>\n<td>(0 POINTS) Needs help transferring to the toilet, cleaning self or uses bedpan or commode.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>TRANSFERRING<\/td>\n<td>(1 POINT) Moves in and out of bed or chair unassisted. Mechanical transferring aides are acceptable.<\/td>\n<td>(0 POINTS) Needs help in moving from bed to chair or requires a complete transfer.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>CONTINENCE<\/td>\n<td>(1 POINT) Exercises complete self control over urination and defecation.<\/td>\n<td>(0 POINTS) Is partially or totally incontinent of bowel or bladder.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>FEEDING<\/td>\n<td>(1 POINT) Gets food from plate into mouth without help. Preparation of food may be done by another person.<\/td>\n<td>(0 POINTS) Needs partial or total help with feeding or requires parenteral feeding.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Interpretation:<br \/>\n6 = High (patient independent)<br \/>\n0 = Low (patient very dependent)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Katz S, Downs TD, Cash HR, Grotz RC. Progress in development of the index of ADL. Gerontologist. 1970 Spring;10(1):20-30. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/5420677\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Buurman BM, van Munster BC, Korevaar JC, de Haan RJ, de Rooij SE.Variability in measuring (instrumental) activities of daily living functioning and functional decline in hospitalized older medical patients: a systematic review. J Clin Epidemiol. 2011 Jun;64(6):619-27. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/21074969\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created Nov 01, 2011.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[788,789,792,1155,1154,1153,59,222,1152,793],"class_list":["post-2411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-practice","tag-actividades","tag-activities","tag-daily","tag-diarias","tag-independence","tag-independencia","tag-index","tag-indice","tag-katz","tag-living"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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