TABLE 4.
Functional activities1 questionnaire completed relative, friend or caregiver by living situation
At home | Other | Total | |
---|---|---|---|
Number | 419 | 409 | 828 |
Percent of total | 51 | 49 | 100 |
% | % | % | |
Activities of daily living (ADLs) | |||
Feeding, including cutting meat or buttering bread | 74 | 33 | 53 |
Bathing, either sponge bath, tub bath or shower | 60 | 17 | 39 |
Dressing, including getting clothes from closet and drawers and using fasteners | 63 | 21 | 42 |
Getting in and out of bed or chair | 53 | 22 | 38 |
Going to toilet room for bowel and urine elimination and cleaning self after (missing = 175) | 66 | 26 | 46 |
Controlling urination and bowel movement | 64 | 26 | 45 |
Moving about indoors | 48 | 15 | 32 |
Moving about outdoors | 35 | 9 | 22 |
All ADLs | 30 | 5 | 18 |
All ADLs except moving | 44 | 10 | 27 |
Instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) | |||
Paying bills, writing checks, balancing a checkbook, keeping financial records | 60 | 17 | 39 |
Assembling taxes, managing business affairs or papers | 55 | 14 | 35 |
Shopping alone for clothes, groceries, and household necessities | 53 | 13 | 33 |
Playing a game of skill or working on a hobby | 61 | 24 | 42 |
Heating water, making a cup of coffee (tea) and turning off stove | 74 | 28 | 51 |
Preparing a balanced meal | 60 | 14 | 37 |
Keeping track of current events | 73 | 31 | 53 |
Paying attention and understanding a TV program, discussing a book or newspaper article | 72 | 32 | 52 |
Remembering appointments, plans, household tasks, car repairs, family occasions, holidays, or medications | 62 | 25 | 44 |
Driving a car | 30 | 5 | 18 |
Traveling out of the neighborhood, arranging to take bus or taxi | 54 | 14 | 34 |
Using the telephone | 69 | 33 | 51 |
All IADLs | 24 | 3 | 14 |
Does without difficulty or advice or doesn’t do regularly but can do if he/she had to. p < 0.0001 for all variables.