Assessing mobility in elderly people. A review of performance-based measures of balance, gait and mobility for bedside use
- Abstract:
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- Journal:
- Reviews in Clinical Gerontology
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- Publication year:
- 1995
- pages:
- 464-486
- Functional status:
- Physical functioning
- Age:
- Seniors (65+)
- Disease:
- Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified
- PRO / non-PRO:
- Non-patient Reported Outcome
- Type of measurement instrument:
- 4 - Performance-based tests
6 - Clinical rating scales
7 - Observations - Instrument:
- Ambulatory Status
Ataxia Scale
Balance Coding
BBS - Berg Balance Scale (versions: BBS-3Points; SFBBS; Short BBS) | 
Bed Rise Difficulty Scale
BS - Balance Score (versions: WBS - Weighted BS)
Chair Stand Ability
Chair Stand-timed repetitions
Clinical Balance Assessment
Cron Sitting Posture
CRT - Chair Rise Tests (3CRT - 3 min CRT; CRT-5 rep; 30s-CRT)
EMS - Elderly Mobility Scale
FAC - Functional Ambulation Classification / Category
FRT - Functional Reach Test / Frontal Reach Test (versions: mFRT; Backward/Forward FRT; FLRT - Functional and Lateral Reach Test) |
Functional Movement Activities Scale
Gait Abnormality Rating Scale
Gait Appearance
HABAM - Hierarchical Assessment of Balance and Mobility
OLS - One-leg standing balance (alias: OLBT - One Leg Balance Test; 1 leg Balance; OLST - One leg stand test; Single leg stance; SLST - Single Leg Stance Test; Flamingo Balance Test ) (versions: eyes open/closed; OLSTP - OLST prosthesis side)
Postural Capability
PPB - Physical Performance Battery
PPME - Physical Performance and Mobility Examination
Romberg Test (versions: Progressive Romberg Test; Adapted version)
Sandin Sitting Balance
Sitting-to-standing Classification
Standard Functional Goals
Standardized Mobility Test
Standing Balance Grade
Sternal Push
ST - Stepping Test [alias: Unterberger's Test] [alias:dynamic balance test] (versions: 10Sec ST)
Tandem backwards walk
Tandem walking/gait (versions: Dual task tandem gait; Complex tandem gait; Instrumented gait/dual task tandem gait/dual task gait)
TCT - Trunk Control Test
TD - Tandem Stance [alias: sharpened Romberg] (versions: Tandem and Unipedal Stance; semi-tandem; parallel)
Timed Chair-Stand Test
Tinetti Gait and Balance Test
Toe Stance (diver's stance)
Transfer Capacity
TUG - Timed Up and Go test (versions: TUG 3m) |
TWT - Timed Walk Test (versions: 10m TWT; 5MinWT; 10MinWT; wheelchair)
Wade Sitting Balance 1983/1987