Texas Functional Living Scale (TFLS) provides an ecologically valid, performance-based screening tool to help identify the level of care an individual requires.
Texas Functional Living Scale
TFLS
Texas Functional Living Scale (TFLS) provides an ecologically valid, performance-based screening tool to help identify the level of care an individual requires.
- Publication date:
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2009
- Age range:
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16:0–90:0 years old
- Scores/interpretation:
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T-Score and Cumulative Percentages
- Qualification level:
- B
- Scoring options:
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Manual scoring
Brief and easy to use, the TFLS is well-suited for use in assisted living and nursing home settings. It is used by a range of professionals, including neuropsychologists and clinical psychologists, social workers, and pharmaceuticals researchers.
Benefits
- Support diagnostic work-ups, placement decisions, treatment planning, evaluation of treatment outcomes, and monitoring of disease progression.
- Focus primarily on skills likely to be affected by cognitive decline (particularly useful with individuals suffering from dementia).
- Links to and is standardized with the WAIS-IV and WMS-IV.
Features
TFLS helps measure an individual’s ability in four functional domains:
- Time: ability to use clocks and calendars
- Money and Calculation: ability to count money and write checks
- Communication: ability to make a snack and use phones and phone books
- Memory: ability to remember simple information and to take medications
Resources
The following research provides further detail of TFLS.
Comparison of TFLS and the WMS-IV Fourth Edition Mild Alzheimer Disease Sample
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