The research of adaptation of „Late life function and disability“ scale: first stage and comparative analysis

Object: „Late life function and disability“ in the first part of the scale comparative analysis of the applicability of lithuanian language. Subject: world increasingly aging society, decreasing number of young people, but are growing number of elderly persons. Mostly as we get older appears functional independence problems such as difficult to wear, eat, go to the grocery store and many others. In order to elucidate the functional disorders, and the level of independence, it is important to properly assess the functional changes related to the independence of older people's lives. Which assessment could include physical therapy program, which would reduce the mobility of functional disorders. To assess functional independence. Assess functional independence of Lithuania officially used instrument that assesses self-care function in daily activities, but it does not reveal all the older age group of functional mobility features extremely healthy and physically active elderly people. Late life function and disability scales of the first part of the good results of the evaluation criteria are widely used in the world, but it is not designed for use in Lithuanian language. Aim: explore elderly persons functional independence „Late life function and disability“ scale and prepare the scale of the of lithuanian language. Goals: 1. To investigate the sources of scientific data on the functional independence scales applicability of lithuanian language using, and to develop a \"Late life function and disability” scale first part the adaptability of lithuanian language. 2. Set the elderly persons the functional independence using \"Late life function and disability,\" the first part of the scale and Barthel index. 3. Compare elderly persons functional independence evaluated using \"Late life function and disability” scale and the Barthel index. Hypothesis: Late life function and disability in the first part of the instrument is suitable for use in lithuanian language. Findings: 1. Is not a lot scales in lithuania for the evaluation of older persons functional independence, and used the Barthel index provides only a summary of information. ,,Late life function and disability scale first part translated and ready to be used for further application in lithuanian language studies. 2. Elderly persons functional independence is sufficient evaluation of the ,, Late life function and disability” scale, and Barthel Index assessment of elderly persons functional independence is very good. 3. Compared to elderly persons functional independence results of application of the ,,Late life function and disability” scale and Barthel index, showed that ,, Late life function and disability” scale is more informative determining the functional independence than the Barthel Index