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Journal of Applied Gerontology, Vol. 24, No. 3, 211-230 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0733464804273772

The Revised Observed Tasks of Daily Living: A Performance-Based Assessment of Everyday Problem Solving in Older Adults

Manfred Diehl

University of Florida, mdiehl{at}ufl.edu

Michael Marsiske

University of Florida

Ann L. Horgas

University of Florida

Adrienne Rosenberg

Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged

Jane S. Saczynski

National Institute on Aging

Sherry L. Willis

Pennsylvania State University

The Revised Observed Tasks of Daily Living (OTDL-R), a performance-based test of everyday problem solving, was administered to a sample of community-dwelling older adults. The OTDLR included nine tasks, representing medication use, telephone use, and financial management. The OTDL-R had a desirable range of difficulty and satisfactory internal consistency and showed a relatively invariant pattern of relations between measured tasks and the underlying latent dimensions they represent across White and non-White subsamples. The OTDL-R also correlated significantly with age, education, self-rated health, a paper-and-pencil measure of everyday problem solving, and measures of basic cognitive functioning. Thus, the OTDL-R is a reliable and valid objective measure of everyday problem solving that has great practical utility for assessing performance in diverse populations.

Key Words: everyday problem solving • everyday competence • performance-based assessment • adulthood • aging


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