The Functional Assessment Staging (FAST) is a widely-used clinical staging instrument developed by Dr. Barry Reisberg to assess functional deterioration in patients with Alzheimer’s disease...
Functional Assessment Resources
Functional assessment is essential for understanding how mental health conditions impact daily living skills, social functioning, and overall independence. Our collection includes validated instruments for measuring activities of daily living, cognitive functioning, and adaptive behaviors across diverse populations.
These tools support comprehensive evaluation of functional capacity, helping clinicians and researchers assess treatment outcomes, plan interventions, and monitor progress. Each instrument has been rigorously validated and is widely used in clinical practice, rehabilitation settings, and research environments.
Whether you're conducting disability evaluations, planning rehabilitation services, or measuring functional outcomes in clinical trials, these assessment tools provide the precision and reliability needed for accurate functional assessment and care planning.
Public Domain Functional Assessment Tools
Freely available, validated functional assessment instruments for immediate download and clinical use.
The Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia (CSDD) is a specialized 19-item clinician-administered assessment instrument developed by Dr. George Alexopoulos and colleagues specifically to evaluate...
