Figure 1.

The UAB LSA.

Notes: The UAB LSA measures Life-Space mobility in the 4 weeks prior to administration through five Life-Space levels from the bedroom where one sleeps to beyond the town. The UAB LSA has no copyright. No permission is required to reproduce the form, and the authors encourage its use in research and clinical settings. Values for distance, frequency, and independence of movement are multiplied to generate a score for each Life-Space level, and these scores are summed to generate a total LSA score. Mobility through a higher Life-Space level automatically means someone moved through lower Life-Space levels, ie, if someone moves through the town, he also travels through the house and the neighborhood. In such a situation, the scores for the lower Life-Space level must be corrected to match those of the immediately higher Life-Space level.

Abbreviations: UAB, University of Alabama at Birmingham; LSA, Life Space Assessment.