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Comprehensive geriatric assessment tools including Katz ADL for functional status, Morse Fall Scale for fall risk, Clinical Frailty Scale, CAM for delirium screening, Get Up and Go test, and MoCA for cognitive screening.
This category currently includes 96 tools, including Katz ADL, Morse Fall Scale, and Clinical Frailty Scale.
These resources are built for clinicians, trainees, and medically informed patients who need fast bedside calculations. Use the results as decision support and pair them with full clinical context and local guidelines.
Assess independence in six basic activities of daily living with the Katz ADL Index. Scores range from 0 (dependent) to 6 (fully independent).
Assess inpatient fall risk with the Morse Fall Scale. Scores categorize patients as low, moderate, or high risk to guide fall-prevention protocols.
Assess frailty using the Rockwood Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS 1–9): Very Fit to Terminally Ill. Used for ICU triage, surgical risk stratification, and goals-of-care discussions in elderly patients.
Screen for delirium using the CAM (Confusion Assessment Method). Gold standard with ~94% sensitivity and ~89% specificity. Requires acute onset + inattention, plus disorganized thinking or altered consciousness.
Assess mobility and fall risk with the Timed Up and Go (TUG) test. TUG >12 seconds indicates high fall risk. Times the performance of standing, walking 3 meters, turning, and returning to seated.
Assess independence in core activities of daily living with the Barthel Index (0-100), commonly used in rehabilitation and geriatric care.
Estimate pressure injury risk with the Norton Scale using physical condition, mental state, activity, mobility, and incontinence.
Estimate pressure injury risk using the Braden Scale (6-23) across sensory perception, moisture, activity, mobility, nutrition, and friction/shear.
Screen for probable sarcopenia risk using SARC-F (0-10) across strength, walking, chair rise, stair climbing, and falls.
Screen for possible cognitive impairment using delayed 3-word recall plus clock drawing (score 0-5).
Estimate pressure ulcer risk using the Waterlow framework with risk domains such as skin status, mobility, continence, nutrition, and age.
Screen malnutrition risk in older adults with the MNA-SF 6-item tool (score 0-14).
Assess independence in higher-level daily tasks using the Lawton IADL scale (score 0-8).
Screen frailty using the 5-item FRAIL scale (Fatigue, Resistance, Ambulation, Illnesses, Loss of weight).
Screen frailty with the 7-item PRISMA-7 questionnaire (score 0-7; >=3 suggests frailty risk).
Estimate lower-extremity functional performance with SPPB total score (0-12) from balance, gait speed, and chair stands.
Screen multidomain frailty using the Edmonton Frailty Scale (EFS), a 0-17 style structured assessment.
Screen vulnerability in adults aged 65+ with VES-13; scores >=3 indicate elevated risk of functional decline.
Classify robust, pre-frail, and frail states using the 5-criterion Fried frailty phenotype.
Rapid emergency/acute-care screening for older-adult risk using the 6-item ISAR tool (score 0-6).
Classify hospital frailty risk category from HFRS value (<5 low, 5-15 intermediate, >15 high).
Screen older surgical/inpatient adults for postoperative delirium risk using the DEAR 4-item score.
Classify eFI values into fit, mild, moderate, or severe frailty categories using common thresholds.
Screen multidomain frailty with the 15-item GFI; scores >=4 are commonly considered frailty-positive.
Screen multidomain frailty with the 15-item TFI across physical, psychological, and social domains.
Enhance SARC-F screening by incorporating calf-circumference risk points to improve sarcopenia detection.
Calculate deficit-accumulation frailty index from 40 predefined deficits (score 0 to 1).
Screen older adults for vulnerability using the G8 tool (score 0-17), often used in geriatric oncology.
Calculate usual gait speed over 4 meters (m/s), a key functional vital sign in older adults.
Assess lower-extremity functional strength and mobility by timing 5 repeated chair stands.
Calculate full MNA score (0-30) to classify normal nutrition, risk of malnutrition, or malnutrition in older adults.
Assess concern about falling with the 7-item Short FES-I score (7-28).
Classify SLUMS cognitive-screen totals (0-30) to support triage for fuller neurocognitive evaluation.
Estimate inpatient/older-adult fall risk using the Downton index (score 0-11; >=3 commonly high risk).
Assess observational pain behaviors in advanced dementia using the 5-item PAINAD scale (0-10).
Screen pain in people with severe dementia using the 6-domain Abbey Pain Scale (0-18).
Estimate depressive symptom burden in dementia using the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia (0-38).
Classify functional dementia progression using FAST stages 1 through 7f.
Screen cognitive status with the 15-point Brief Interview for Mental Status (BIMS) used in long-term and post-acute care.
Assess observational pain burden in cognitively impaired older adults with the DoloPlus-2 (0-30).
Assess pain behaviors in cognitively impaired older adults using the 15-item PAIC-15 observational scale (0-45).
Classify dementia severity with the Clinical Dementia Rating global stage (0, 0.5, 1, 2, 3).
Stage overall cognitive decline with the 7-level Global Deterioration Scale (GDS) from no decline to very severe dementia.
Estimate informant-reported cognitive decline using the short 16-item IQCODE mean score.
Screen for cognitive impairment using the 8-item AD8 informant interview (score 0-8).
Rapid cognitive screening with the Six-Item Cognitive Impairment Test (6CIT), weighted score range 0-28.
Screen memory impairment with the brief delayed free- and cued-recall Memory Impairment Screen (0-8).
Rapid delirium screening tool scored 0-12; scores of 4 or more suggest possible delirium.
Assess instrumental daily-function impairment with the 10-item Pfeffer FAQ (0-30).
Brief weighted orientation-memory-concentration cognitive screen scored 0-28.
Informant-rated everyday cognition decline scale summarized by mean score across 12 items.
10-item bedside cognitive screen for rapid cognitive impairment triage in older adults.
Pfeiffer cognitive screen interpreted by error count (0-10) for older-adult cognitive impairment triage.
Rapid bedside cognitive screen assessing visuospatial and executive function through a structured clock drawing task.
A brief 5-item nursing delirium screen (0-10) commonly using >=2 as a positive threshold.
A 10-domain delirium severity scale (0-30) commonly using cutoff around >=13 for delirium signal.
Primary-care cognitive screen using a 9-point patient section with optional informant follow-up.
Brief 10-point cognitive screen used to triage likely normal cognition, MCI signal, or dementia-range impairment.
A 25-item multidomain frailty-risk questionnaire used to identify older adults at risk of functional decline.
A nursing-home focused frailty measure summarizing dependency, mobility, nutrition, and functional vulnerability.
A 3-item frailty phenotype screen classifying robust, prefrail, or frail status.
A 4-item appetite screen (4-20) used to identify older adults at risk for short-term weight loss.
A structured gait-and-balance assessment (0-28) used to estimate fall risk in older adults.
A 14-task balance assessment scored 0-56 to quantify postural control and fall-risk signal.
A quick standing balance test measuring maximal forward reach distance to estimate fall-risk signal.
Counts sit-to-stand repetitions completed in 30 seconds to assess lower-body functional strength.
A nursing observation-based delirium screen scored 0-13, with >=3 commonly treated as positive.
A 2-item ultra-brief delirium screen where any failed item suggests possible delirium.
Summed anticholinergic medication burden score used to estimate cognitive and functional adverse-effect risk.
A 5-item inpatient fall-risk tool (0-5) with >=2 commonly used as high-risk threshold.
An inpatient fall-risk score with common high-risk threshold at 5 or more points.
A quick static-balance test using unsupported one-leg standing time to estimate fall-risk signal.
A point-based inpatient fall-risk assessment with low/moderate/high risk bands.
A nurse-observed 0-30 confusion scale for early detection of cognitive fluctuation and delirium signal.
A 30-point cognitive screen designed for culturally and linguistically diverse populations.
A brief 30-point cognitive screen used to detect mild cognitive impairment and dementia signal.
A rapid positive/negative delirium screen adapted from CAM logic for acute-care workflows.
A structured delirium severity instrument with higher scores reflecting greater symptom burden.
A nutrition-related risk index used in older adults to stratify adverse-outcome risk.
A lab-based nutrition screening score (0-12) combining albumin, cholesterol, and lymphocyte components.
A brief caregiver-burden questionnaire used to quantify strain in dementia and chronic-care contexts.
A 13-item yes/no caregiver-strain screen where >=7 often indicates clinically significant strain.
A 5-item late-life depression screen with higher scores indicating greater depressive symptom signal.
A nutrition-risk index where lower scores indicate increasing malnutrition-associated risk.
A brief malnutrition screen (0-5) based on unintentional weight loss and appetite reduction.
A guideline-based hospital nutrition risk score where >=3 suggests need for nutrition support.
A 10-item dysphagia symptom screen (0-40) where >=3 commonly indicates swallowing-risk signal.
A bedside mobility function score (0-20) used to estimate dependence and rehabilitation needs.
An ultra-brief positive/negative delirium triage screen used before fuller confirmatory assessment.
A point-based delirium risk model used to estimate incident delirium risk in hospitalized adults.
A delirium severity scale derived from CAM features, used for symptom burden tracking over time.
A 26-item informant-based cognitive decline screen summarized as a 1.0-5.0 mean score.
A brief informant-rated cognitive-functional staging scale used to estimate dementia severity burden.
A caregiver-observed cognitive-functional impairment scale used for dementia severity estimation.
A brief caregiver/informant questionnaire for behavioral and psychological symptoms in dementia, reporting severity and caregiver distress totals.
An informant-based functional scale used to quantify daily living ability in patients with Alzheimer disease and related cognitive disorders.