Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Overview of methodological issues in gerontological and geriatric measurement / Jeanne A. Teresi and Douglas Holmes
  • Assessing health / M. Powell Lawton and Renée H. Lawrence
  • Functional disability : activities and instrumental activites of daily living / Mary Grace Kovar and M. Powell Lawton
  • Balance and gait measures / Pamela W. Duncan and Stephanie Studenski
  • Brief assessments of cognitive function in the elderly / Marilyn S. Albert Assessment of behavioral disturbance in older adults / Linda Teri and Rebecca G. Logsdon
  • Leisure and productive activity / Roger C. Mannell and Sherry L. Dupuis
  • Assessing the health-related dimensions of older adults' social relationships / Karen S. Rook
  • Aging and personality assessment / Carolyn M. Aldwin and Michael R. Levenson
  • The measurement of affect in the elderly / Richard Schulz, Alison T. O'Brien, and Connie A. Tompkins
  • Assessment of depression / Nancy A. Pachana, Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, and Larry W. Thompson
  • Caregiver functioning / Gary T. Deimling
  • Assessment of pain in the elderly / Patricia A. Parmelee
  • Assessing the environment / Frances M. Carp
  • Assessing life events among older adults / Alex J. Zautra, Glenn Affleck, and Howard Tennen
  • Multidimensional assessment instruments : present status and future prospects / Linda K. George.