title: Evaluating capacity to live independently and safely in the community: Performance Assessment of Self-care Skills.
abstract: To determine clients' capacity for community living, occupational therapists must use measures that capture the person-task-environment transaction and compare clients' task performance to a performance standard. The Performance Assessment of Self-care Skills, a performance-based, criterion-referenced, observational tool, fulfills this purpose. In this practice analysis, using data from this tool from multiple clinical studies (N = 941), the authors describe tasks that clients from various diagnostic populations could and could not perform independently and safely. For clinicians, the Performance Assessment of Self-care Skills can be used to identify which daily tasks are compromised and the point of task breakdown, as well as to provide guidance about potential interventions.
authors.affiliation: University of Pittsburgh - Occupational Therapy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
authors.forename: Denise
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chisholm
authors.affiliation: University of Pittsburgh - Occupational Therapy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
authors.forename: Pamela
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Toto
authors.affiliation: University of Pittsburgh - Occupational Therapy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
authors.forename: Ketki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Raina
authors.affiliation: University of Pittsburgh - Occupational Therapy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
authors.forename: Margo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Holm
authors.affiliation: University of Pittsburgh - Occupational Therapy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
authors.forename: Joan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rogers
keywords: Occupational performance; activities of daily living; evaluation