CHAPTER 7: MELBOURNE LOW-VISION ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING INDEX (MLVAI) Description The Melbourne Low-Vision Activities of Daily Living Index (MLVAI), developed by Haymes, Johnston, and Heyes (2001b), is an assessment…
CHAPTER 3: AUSTRALIAN THERAPY OUTCOME MEASURES (AUSTOMS)—THIRD EDITION Description The Australian Therapy Outcome Measures (AusTOMs), created by Perry et al. (2004), is a performance-based scale designed for therapy departments that…
CHAPTER 6: LAWTON INSTRUMENTAL ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING (IADL) SCALE Description The Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) Scale is an 8-item questionnaire administered either by proxy, through interview,…
CHAPTER 4: THE FRENCHAY ACTIVITIES INDEX (FAI) Description Developed by Holbrook and Skilbeck, (1983), the Frenchay Activities Index (FAI) is a questionnaire that is used to measure instrumental activities of…
CHAPTER 1: ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING (ADL) PROFILE Description The ADL Profile is both a performance-based assessment and questionnaire that is administered through a semi-structured interview and is designed to…
CHAPTER 5: INSTRUMENTAL ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING (IADL) PROFILE Description The Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) Profile is a performance-based measure designed for those with traumatic brain injury (TBI)…
CHAPTER 2: ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING QUESTIONNAIRE (ADLQ) Description The Activities of Daily Living Questionnaire (ADLQ) is an informant-based assessment that measures an individual’s functional ability and is designed for…
CHAPTER EIGHT Scientific Methodology What is the foundation of all conclusions from experience? This implies a new question, which may be of more difficult solutions and explication. —David Hume (1748/1974)…
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Next Steps Toward Practice Knowledge Development: An Emerging Epistemology in Nursing New forms of knowledge production can, as they diffuse, make for ambiguous situations as older demarcation lines…
CHAPTER NINE Observation: The Scientific Gaze There is more to seeing than meets the eyeball. —Norwood Russell Hanson (1965) There is perhaps no more basic and fundamental element of modern…
