title: Mobility screening as part of a community-based geriatric assessment.
abstract: This article provides an overview of the basic components of mobility and encourages home care practitioners to include mobility screening as a part of geriatric assessment. Mobility is viewed as an integrated and interdependent function of physical, mental, emotional, and social capacities, and therefore encourages an interdisciplinary approach to assessment of basic mobility problems and needs. The discussion includes mobility-related operational definitions and measurements, reasons to perform a mobility screen, how to incorporate the components of basic mobility into a geriatric mobility screen, and factors that significantly distinguish in-home assessment from a clinic- or institution-based geriatric mobility assessment.
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Treml
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003152:Community Health Nursing; D005260:Female; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D009730:Nursing Assessment