Proportion of home care clients with a score of less than 18 on the baseline activities of daily living (ADL) long form who decline further. Incidence indicator.

Number of home care clients with a score of less than 18 on the baseline ADL long form who decline further.

All home care clients with baseline impairment and assessments at both baseline and target assessment (at 6 months).

Adjusted for: difficulty with meal preparation, housework and bathing, unsteady gait, Cognitive Performance Scale score, institutional risk, ADL hierarchy scale score.

IADL summary scale.

Data collected for the Aged in Home Care (ADHoC) project (2000-2002). Data were collected using the RAI-HC by specially trained assessors, usually nurses, who verify collected information that included direct interviews of home care clients and family members, as well as review of physician reports medical records.

Reporting in publication level for 7 countries: Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands for HC recipients.

Foebel AD, van Hout HP, van der Roest HG, et al. Quality of care in European home care programs using the second generation interRAI Home Care Quality Indicators (HCQIs). BMC Geriatr 2015;15:148.