HAT - Health Assessment Tool

for people 60 years old and older



Health Assessment Tool score
Percentage of people with better health score


  Age
  Sex Man Woman
  Disabilities in personal-ADL None 1 or more
  Disabilities in instrumental-ADL None 1 or more
  MMSE score 30 29 28-20 19-0
  Walking speed (m/sec) ≥ 1.5 ≥ 1.0 ≥ 0.4 <0.4
  Number of chronic diseases None 1-2 ≥ 3


References

[1] Santoni et al. Defining health trajectories in older adults using five clinical indicators. Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 2016; doi: 10.1093/gerona/glw204

[2] Lagergrenet al. A longitudinal study integrating population, care and social services data. The Swedish National study on Aging and Care (SNAC). Aging clinical and experimental research, 2004; 16(2), 158-168.

[3] Folstein et al.. “Mini-mental state”. A practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician. J Psychiatr Res 1975;12:189-198.

[4] Santoni et al. Age-related variation in health status after age 60. PLoS One 2015;10(3):e0120077.