2017
DOI: 10.1007/s10433-017-0422-7
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Validity of the EASYCare Standard 2010 assessment instrument for self-assessment of health, independence, and well-being of older people living at home in Poland

Abstract: EASYCare Standard 2010 is a brief instrument identifying concerns in health, functional independence, and well-being, from older persons’ perspective. It has not previously been validated for self-assessment. Our aim was to determine whether self-assessment (EC1) can give comparable results to an evaluation performed by professionals (EC2), for older people living at home. The study included community-dwelling individuals (aged at least 60 years, n = 100; 67 females) without dementia (abbreviated mental test s… Show more

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“…(19) The EASYCare Standard 2010 questionnaire has been validated in community-dwelling older people in Malaysia (20) and India. (19) It contains 18 items that assess the care recipient's needs for care and support, (21) with a total score ranging from 0 to 100. A high score is associated with a high need for support.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…(19) The EASYCare Standard 2010 questionnaire has been validated in community-dwelling older people in Malaysia (20) and India. (19) It contains 18 items that assess the care recipient's needs for care and support, (21) with a total score ranging from 0 to 100. A high score is associated with a high need for support.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…After some modifications in the EASY-Care Standard, the last version designated in this study as the EASYCare-2010, has been used in many countries worldwide, 14,15,17,41,42 and was validated in Portugal and Poland. [35][36] It covers 49 items, including a summary global measure of self-rated health using a 5-point scale with response options 'excellent', 'very good', 'good', 'fair' and 'poor'. The first three response options were collated into the category 'self-rated healthy' and the other two options into the category 'self-rated unhealthy'.…”
Section: Materials and Methods Instrumentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Portugal and Poland have been using the EASYCare standard assessment for assessing the needs, priorities and threats to health of older persons for several years and recently, this instrument was validated for both countries. 35,36 However there have been no studies evaluating and comparing both countries in terms of threats to health and well-being. Despite functional dependence being a crucial factor for aging well, fairly little is known about health threats in advanced age, particularly low purchasing power, low educational attainment, visual impairment, bodily pain, memory loss, feeling bored or lonely and reporting shortness of breath during normal activities.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The literature on functional status self-assessment is scant, especially in an older patient population. A 2018 study aimed to validate the EASYCare Standard 2010 (49-item questionnaire assessing health, functional status, and general well-being) for self-assessment by older adults [9]. No significant differences were found and excellent-togood agreement between self-assessment and professional scores were obtained in their population of 100 volunteer community-dwelling older adults (aged ≥ 60).…”
Section: Comparison To Previous Studiesmentioning
confidence: 99%