This indicator looks at how many long-term care residents improved or remained completely independent in the activities of daily living (ADLs) dressing and personal hygiene.
Higher is better; it means that a higher percentage of long-term care residents had improved status in early-loss ADL functioning.
Data availability:
to (fiscal years)
Geographic coverage
Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon
Reporting level
Province/Territory, Region, Facility, Corporation
Calculation
Percentage of residents whose early-loss ADL functioning (dressing and personal hygiene) improved or who remained completely independent in early-loss ADLs on their target assessment compared with their prior assessment
Unit of Analysis: Resident
Denominator
Residents with valid assessments, excluding comatose and end-of-life residents
Numerator
Residents with improved early-loss ADL self-performance (decreased score) on their target assessment compared with their prior assessment or a score of 0 on both prior and target assessments
Comments
The long-term care quality indicators use 4 rolling quarters of data for calculations in order to have a sufficient number of assessments for risk adjustment. Since residents are assessed on a quarterly basis, each resident can contribute to the indicator up to 4 times.
Data for this indicator is also available in the Quick Stats product Profile of Residents in Residential and Hospital-Based Continuing Care, which includes province-/territory-level results for both the residential and hospital-based continuing care sectors. Please consult the Quick Stats product for more information.