Table 1. Professional and Consumer Ratings for ADL and IADL Domains.
| Functional Domain | Professional (N = 27) | Consumer (N = 51) | ||
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| Mean | Rank | Mean | Rank | |
| Cleaning the House or Doing the Laundry | 201 | 1 | 419 | 1 |
| Shopping | 224 | 2 | 503 | 3 |
| Walking Outside | 335 | 3 | 515 | 4 |
| Using the Telephone | 339 | 4 | 563 | 6 |
| Preparing Meals | 462 | 5 | 543 | 5 |
| Taking Medications | 481 | 6 | 669 | 8 |
| Bathing | 500 | 7 | 500 | 2 |
| Dressing | 537 | 8 | 613 | 7 |
| Walking or Managing Wheelchair | 800 | 9 | 720 | 9.5 |
| Transferring | 847 | 10 | 720 | 9.5 |
| Using the Toilet | 866 | 11 | 798 | 12 |
| Feeding Self | 1,005 | 12 | 732 | 11 |
NOTES: ADL is activities of daily living. IADL is instrumental activities of daily living.
SOURCE: Kane, R.L., Rockwood, T., Finch, M., and Philp, I., 1997.