Geriatric Assessments can assist Healthcare Practitioners

Geriatric Assessments can assist Healthcare Practitioners

Geriatric assessments can assist Healthcare Practitioners in various Health Authorities in British Columbia. By putting Assessments Online, Healthcare Practitioners will have a quick approach to evaluating the health of the elderly. Geriatric assessments are tools that are comprehensive, multidimensional and interdisciplinary in nature. They assess elderly person’s health across various domains such as mental health, functional ability, cognition, nutritional, hearing and physical health.

There are several types of Geriatric Assessment Tools that have been created to evaluate the various domains such as:

• Katz Index of Independence in Activities in Daily Living
• Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale – Self Rated Version
• Nutritional Checklist
• Screening Version of the Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly
• Geriatric Depression Scale
• Alzheimer’s Questionnaire
• Patient Health Questionnaire

The FactFinder Solution has the ability to create the above Geriatric Assessment tools with scoring, feedback and more. Imagine how quickly you can gain the feedback via a Mobile Device and move on to other patient care. Imagine gathering important health data in one click of a button from anywhere such as a doctor’s office, hospital, client’s home, assisted living environment and/or a residential home facility.

Here is an example of a Patient Health Questionnaire that is gaining feedback about a patients level of depression: