. "Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Presenters." Improving the Measurement of Late-Life Disability in Population Surveys: Beyond ADLs and IADLs: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2009.
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Improving the Measurement of Late-Life Disability in Population Surveys: Beyond ADLs and IADLs - Summary of a Workshop
Presenters:
10:30–10:45 a.m.
Overview of Background Paper—Population Survey Measures of Functioning: Strengths and Weaknesses
Barbara Altman
10:45–11:00 a.m.
Developing Questions in Surveys to Identify People Early in the Disablement Process
Linda Fried
11:00–11:15 a.m.
Enhancing the Ascertainment of Disability
Thomas Gill
11:15–11:30 a.m.
Self Versus Proxy Responses in Population Surveys
Jay Magaziner
11:30–11:45 a.m.
Expanding Mode of Survey Administration – (face to face, telephone, Internet, etc.)
Arie Kapteyn
11:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Comments and General Discussion
12:15 p.m.
Working Lunch—Continuation of Discussion
1:30–3:00 p.m.
SESSION TWO
Moderator:
Alan Jette
Potential Methods for Refining or Augmenting Current Measures of Late-Life Disability in PopulationSurveys to Foster Comparability Across Key Subgroups(taking into account suitability for populationsurveys, relevance for monitoring trends, response burden and bias, and costs)
Presenters:
1:30–1:45 p.m.
Performance Measures in Population Surveys:
Initial use and diffusion
Using performance measures to calibrate disability cut-points across population groups
Jack Guralnik
1:45–2:00 p.m.
Improving Patient Reported Measurement of Disability Using Item Response Theory/Computer-Adaptive Testing Techniques:
