Background
Methods
Study design
Delphi participant recruitment
Stage 1
InterRAI assessment
Data collection
Stage 2
Data collection
Data analysis
Analysis of Stage 1 surveys
Analysis of Stage 2 surveys
Results
Participant Characteristics | Delphi Starters (n = 39) | Delphi Completers (n = 25) | P value |
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Sex | 0.947 | ||
Female | 33 (84.6%) | 21 (84.0%) | |
Age Range | 0.946 | ||
31–40 | 9 (23.1%) | 4 (16.0%) | |
41–50 | 6 (15.4%) | 4 (16.0%) | |
51–60 | 6 (15.4%) | 3 (12.0%) | |
61–70 | 10 (25.6%) | 9 (36.0%) | |
71–80 | 7 (17.9%) | 4 (16.0%) | |
81–90 | 1 (2.6%) | 1 (4.0%) | |
Perspective | 0.729 | ||
Researcher/Health Provider | 22 (56.4%) | 13 (52.0%) | |
Caregiver/Older Adult | 17 (43.6%) | 12 (48.0%) | |
Location | 0.883 | ||
Ontario | 33 (84.6%) | 20 (80.0%) | |
Other Canadian Province | 5 (12.8%) | 4 (16.0%) | |
Outside Canada | 1 (2.6%) | 1 (4.0%) |
Stage 1 results
Round 1 survey
Round 2 survey
Round 3 survey
# | Bodily Functions (total consensus = 80) | Daily Functioning (total consensus = 32) | Participation (total consensus = 10) | Quality of Life (total consensus = 24) | Meaningfulness (total consensus = 1) | Mental Wellbeing (total consensus = 32) | No Pillar of Best Fit (total consensus = 10) |
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1 | Person’s hearing ability | Person’s ability to prepare their own meals (e.g., planning meals, assembling ingredients) | Person demonstrated reduced social interactions | Person’s home is in a state of disrepair (e.g., hazardous clutter) | Person reports little interest or pleasure in activities normally enjoyed | Person’s short-term memory is OK (e.g., person appears to be able to recall after 5 min) | Person’s gender |
2 | Person’s vision (i.e., person’s ability to see close objects in adequate light using customary visual appliances for close vision) | Person’s ability to take part in housework (e.g., doing dishes, dusting) | Person’s participation in social activities of long-standing interest | Person lives in squalid conditions (e.g., infestation) | Person sometimes can’t “think straight” or sometimes struggles to concentrate | Where the assessment is being done (e.g., private home, assisted living setting, hospital, care home) | |
3 | Time taken for person to do a 4-metre walk | Person’s ability to independently manage their finances (e.g., bills are paid, cheque book is balanced) | Person paid a visit to, or was visited by long-standing social relation or family member | Person’s home has inadequate heating/ cooling | Person is easily distracted (e.g., has episodes of difficulty paying attention, gets sidetracked) | Whether the person identifies as Indigenous (e.g., First Nations, Métis, Inuit) | |
4 | Distance walked by person (with necessary support equipment) | Person’s ability to manage medication use (e.g., remembering to take medication, opening bottles, taking correct dosage) | Person interacted with long-standing social relation or family member (e.g., telephone or email) | Person feels unsafe and might be at risk of violence within or outside their home | Person’s mental function varies over the course of the day | Person’s primary language (e.g., English, French) | |
5 | Person’s pattern of bladder continence | Person’s ability to use the phone (e.g., make and receive calls) | Amount of time person spends alone during the day (i.e., morning and afternoon) | Person lives in apartment or house that has been made accessible for persons with disabilities | Person has significant changes in usual level of mental functioning (e.g., restlessness, lethargy, altered perceptions of their environment) | Time since event or problem that led to person’s deterioration | |
6 | Person’s pattern of bowel continence | Person’s ability to shop for household elements (e.g., selecting elements and paying for food and household elements) | Person has strong and supportive relationship with family | Person can go grocery shopping without assistance | Person was diagnosed with anxiety | Person’s marital status | |
7 | Person was diagnosed with hip fracture | Person’s ability to transport themselves (e.g., can travel by public transportation or get in and out of house and vehicles) | Person stopped participating in activities of interest | Person is experiencing financial constraints which may impact their health or safety (e.g., made trade-offs among purchasing adequate food, shelter, clothing, prescribed medications) | Person was diagnosed with depression | Person’s family or close friends report feeling overwhelmed by person’s illness | |
8 | Person was diagnosed with other fracture (i.e., any other fracture other than a hip bone fracture) | Person’s ability to bathe independently (e.g., person was able to transfer in and out of tub/ shower, bathe all parts of the body including: arms, upper and lower legs, chest and abdomen) | Number of days person went out of the house | Person’s living situation (e.g., independent/ semi-independent living, mental health residence, group home, hospital/ unit, homeless, correctional facility) | Person shows signs of abnormal thought processes (e.g., loosening of associations, thought blocking, flight of ideas) | Time since person’s last hospital stay | |
9 | Person was diagnosed with hemiplegia | Person’s personal hygiene (e.g., combing hair, brushing teeth) | Person’s interest in social, religious, occupational or other preferred activities changed in the last 90 days | Person’s living situation over the last 5 years (e.g., prior stay in a residential care facility, board & care home, hospital/ unit) | Person shows signs of delusions (e.g., fixed false beliefs) | Person’s primary informal helper expresses distress, anger, depression | |
10 | Person was diagnosed with paraplegia | Person’s ability to dress the upper body | Person has an informal helper (e.g., informal caregiver) | Person made nonverbal expressions demonstrating a lack of pleasure in life (e.g., anhedonia) | Person shows signs of hallucinations (e.g., false sensory perceptions) | Number of hours of informal care and active monitoring received by person in the last 3 days | |
11 | Person was diagnosed with coronary heart disease | Person’s ability to dress the lower body | Person experienced a major stressful event in the last 90 days (e.g., episode of severe personal illness, death or illness of close member) | Person’s procedural memory is OK (e.g., person can do several tasks in a row without prompts) | |||
12 | Person was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | Person’s ability to cleanse self after toilet use or incontinence | Person has had one or more care goals met in the last 90 days | Person’s situational memory is OK (e.g., they can recognize caregiver’s names, faces of frequently encountered people, location of regularly visited places) | |||
13 | Person was diagnosed with congestive heart failure | Change in person’s activities of daily living (e.g., bathing, showering, personal hygiene etc.) in the last 90 days | Person’s residential/ living status after discharge (e.g., private home, assisted living, hospital/ unit, care facility) | Person has episodes of disorganized speech | |||
14 | Person was diagnosed with pneumonia | Person takes medications as prescribed by physician | Person made repetitive non-health-related concerns (e.g., seeking attention/ reassurance regarding schedules, meals, laundry and relationships) | Person’s decision making abilities are different compared to 90 days ago (e.g., abilities improved or declined) | |||
15 | Person was diagnosed with urinary tract infection in last 30 days | Person demonstrates unusually poor hygiene | Person demonstrated sad, pained, or worried facial expressions (e.g., furrowed brows, constant frowning) | Person demonstrated persistent anger with self or others (e.g., easily annoyed, anger at care received) | |||
16 | Person was diagnosed with cancer | Person’s skills for daily decision making (e.g., person is independent in decision making or is impaired in decision making) | Person was fearful of family member or close acquaintance | Person demonstrated unrealistic fears (e.g., fear of being abandoned, being left alone or being with others) | |||
17 | Person was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus | Person resisted care (e.g., taking medications/ injections, activities of daily living assistance) | Person experienced neglect, abuse, or mistreatment | Person made recurrent statements that something terrible is about to happen | |||
18 | Person has a recent history (e.g., last 30 days) of falling | Person drove car (vehicle) in last 90 days | Person expresses feelings of loneliness | Person reports feeling anxious, restless or uneasy | |||
19 | Person experiences dizziness | Person is able to have grocery delivered to their home | Person’s self-reported health | Person reports feeling sad, depressed, or hopeless | |||
20 | Person demonstrates an unsteady gait | Person’s overall self-sufficiency has changed significantly in the last 90 days | Person was physically restrained (e.g., limbs restrained to chair) | Person was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease | |||
22 | Person experiences chest pain | Person’s stated goals of care | Informal caregiver lives with person | Person was diagnosed with dementia other than Alzheimer’s | |||
22 | Person has difficulty clearing airway secretions | Person’s ability to move on and off toilet or commode | Person’s informal helper(s) is unable to continue caring | Person was diagnosed with bipolar disorder | |||
23 | Person experiences symptoms of acid reflux (i.e., regurgitation of acid from stomach to throat) | Person’s ability to eat and drink (including other means of intake of nourishment by other means such as tube feeding) | Person has limited access to home/ rooms (e.g., unable to climb stairs) | Person was diagnosed with schizophrenia | |||
24 | Person experiences constipation (i.e., no bowel movement in 3 days or difficult passage of hard stool) | Person’s primary means of movement indoors | Person has access to emergency assistance | Person’s ability to be understood (e.g., ability to express or communicate requests, needs, opinion and urgent problems and to engage in social conversation) | |||
25 | Person experiences diarrhea | Person has been told to limit or stop driving | Person’s ability to understand others (i.e., ability to understand verbal information) | ||||
26 | Person experiences vomiting | Person’s conditions/ diseases make cognitive issues, activities of daily living, mood, or behaviour patterns unstable | Person cried or experienced tearfulness | ||||
27 | Person experiences symptoms of aspiration (i.e., coughing or wheezing after eating) | Person’s level of tobacco use (e.g., smokes tobacco daily) | Person wanders around frequently (e.g., moved with no rationale) | ||||
28 | Person has symptoms of fever | Person’s level of alcohol intake (i.e., number of drinks in any ‘single sitting’ in last 14 days) | Person demonstrated verbally abusive behaviour (e.g., threatened others, screamed at others etc.) | ||||
29 | Person has gastrointestinal or genitourinary bleeding | Decrease in amount of food/ fluid usually consumed by person | Person demonstrated physically abusive behaviour (e.g., others were hit, shoved) | ||||
30 | Person has symptoms of peripheral edema | Person ate one or fewer meals (i.e., or at least 2 over the last 3 days) | Person demonstrated disruptive or socially inappropriate behaviour (e.g., made disruptive sounds or noises) | ||||
31 | Person has symptoms of dyspnea (i.e., shortness of breath) | List of all medications taken by person | Person demonstrated sexually inappropriate behaviour or disrobed in public | ||||
32 | Intensity of pain experienced by person (e.g., mild, moderate, severe) | Person received care from a care professional in the last 7 days (e.g., home health aide, home nurse, physical/ occupational therapy, speech-language pathology) | Person reports feelings of conflict or anger with family/ friends | ||||
33 | Consistency of pain experienced by person (e.g., single episode, intermittent, constant) | ||||||
34 | Person experienced breakthrough pain (e.g., sudden, acute flare-ups) | ||||||
35 | Person’s height and weight | ||||||
36 | Person’s degree of weight loss (i.e., 5% or more in last 30 days, or 10% or more in last 180 days) | ||||||
37 | Person’s fluid output exceeds input | ||||||
38 | Person has broken, fragmented, loose, non-intact natural teeth | ||||||
39 | Person reports having dry mouth | ||||||
40 | Grade (description) of person’s most severe pressure ulcer | ||||||
41 | Person has a skin ulcer other than pressure ulcer | ||||||
42 | Person has major skin problems (e.g., lesions, 2nd or 3rd degree burns) | ||||||
43 | Person has skin tears or cuts | ||||||
44 | Person has other skin conditions or changes in skin condition (e.g., bruise, rash, eczema) | ||||||
45 | Person has foot problems (e.g., bunions, hammertoes, overlapping toes, structural problems, infections, ulcers) | ||||||
46 | Person is allergic to any drug | ||||||
47 | Person’s ability to walk up a full flight of stairs (e.g., manage 12–14 stairs) | ||||||
48 | Person’s ability to walk around indoors (i.e., how person walks between locations on same floor) | ||||||
49 | Person’s ability to move around (walking or wheeling) indoors | ||||||
50 | Person’s ability to move around in bed (i.e., how person moves to/ from lying position, turns from side to side) | ||||||
51 | Person uses urinary collection device (i.e., excluding pads/ briefs) | ||||||
52 | Person uses pads or briefs for incontinence | ||||||
53 | Person was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease | ||||||
54 | Person was diagnosed with quadriplegia | ||||||
55 | Person was diagnosed with stroke/ cerebrovascular accident | ||||||
56 | Person has difficulty moving self to standing position unassisted | ||||||
57 | Person has difficulty turning around when standing | ||||||
58 | Person has difficulty falling/ staying asleep | ||||||
59 | Person is experiencing acute episode or flare-up of a recurrent or chronic problem | ||||||
60 | Person shows signs of dehydration | ||||||
61 | Person’s fluid intake is less than 1,000ml/ day | ||||||
62 | Person wears denture(s) | ||||||
63 | Person reports experiencing difficulty chewing | ||||||
64 | Person has a history of prior pressure ulcer | ||||||
65 | Person made repetitive health complaints (e.g., persistently seeking medical attention, incessant concern with body functions) | ||||||
66 | Total hours of physical activity person participated in | ||||||
67 | Person’s health care provider believes person is able to improve levels of physical function | ||||||
68 | Person was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis | ||||||
69 | Number of falls experienced by the person in the last 90 days | ||||||
70 | Person experiences excessive sleep that interferes with normal functioning | ||||||
71 | Person experiences fatigue (e.g., inability to complete normal daily activities) | ||||||
72 | Frequency with which person complains or shows evidence of pain | ||||||
73 | Person reports that pain control is adequate to the level of pain experienced | ||||||
74 | How person consumes food (e.g., normal, only pureed solids, use of abdominal feeding tube) | ||||||
75 | Person has had blood pressure measured in last year | ||||||
76 | Person has had colonoscopy test in last 5 years | ||||||
77 | Treatments received or scheduled by person (e.g., chemotherapy, intravenous medication, wound care) | ||||||
78 | Person visited hospital, emergency room, or physician visit in the last 90 days | ||||||
79 | Person had an inpatient acute hospital visit with overnight stay in the last 90 days | ||||||
80 | Person had a physician or authorized assistant/ practitioner visit in the last 90 days |