The revised observed tasks of daily living: A performance-based assessment of everyday problem solving in older adults

M Diehl, M Marsiske, AL Horgas… - Journal of applied …, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
M Diehl, M Marsiske, AL Horgas, A Rosenberg, JS Saczynski, SL Willis
Journal of applied gerontology, 2005journals.sagepub.com
The Revised Observed Tasks of Daily Living (OTDL-R), a performance-based test of
everyday problem solving, was administered to a sample of community-dwelling older
adults. The OTDLR included nine tasks, representing medication use, telephone use, and
financial management. The OTDL-R had a desirable range of difficulty and satisfactory
internal consistency and showed a relatively invariant pattern of relations between
measured tasks and the underlying latent dimensions they represent across White and non …
The Revised Observed Tasks of Daily Living (OTDL-R), a performance-based test of everyday problem solving, was administered to a sample of community-dwelling older adults. The OTDLR included nine tasks, representing medication use, telephone use, and financial management. The OTDL-R had a desirable range of difficulty and satisfactory internal consistency and showed a relatively invariant pattern of relations between measured tasks and the underlying latent dimensions they represent across White and non-White subsamples. The OTDL-R also correlated significantly with age, education, self-rated health, a paper-and-pencil measure of everyday problem solving, and measures of basic cognitive functioning. Thus, the OTDL-R is a reliable and valid objective measure of everyday problem solving that has great practical utility for assessing performance in diverse populations.
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