Objectives. This article describes the development of an assessment of functional disability
for use with proxyrespondents of community-dwelling persons who have Alzheimer’s disease …

Mazer BL, Sofer S, Korner-Bitensky N, Gelinas I, Hanley J, Wood-Dauphinee S. Effectiveness
of a visual attention retraining program on the driving performance of clients with stroke. …

The Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD) scale was developed and validated as a
measure of functional ability in dementia. DAD results have been reported in Alzheimer disease …

Functional impairment is a core symptom of Alzheimer's disease. The most accurate
indicator of functional impairment is the decline in performance of Activities of Daily Living (ADL). …

Objectives: To review the literature on social participation in the elderly, including the benefits
and factors associated with it and the measures used to evaluate it. Methods: A review of …

The Candrive II/Ozcandrive study, a multicentre prospective cohort study examining the
predictive validity of tools for assessing fitness to drive, aims to develop an in-office screening …

OBJECTIVE. To determine off-road and on-road driving evaluation practices of clinicians in
the United States and Canada who assess individuals with disabilities for fitness to drive. …

Background: Functional impairment is a core symptom of Alzheimer's disease (AD) often
measured by loss of ability to perform activities of daily living (ADL). The objective is to describe …

Background: Social participation refers to daily activities, such as personal care and mobility,
and social roles, such as interpersonal relationships and leisure. Although restrictions in …

This study was conducted to compare, by age group and gender, the level of participation of
older adults who had no disabilities, and to determine which characteristics are most …