Texas Functional Living Scale (TFLS) provides an ecologically valid, performance-based screening tool to help identify the level of care an individual requires. 

Texas Functional Living Scale
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Texas Functional Living Scale

TFLS

Munro Cullum,Kathy Saine,Myron F. Weiner

Texas Functional Living Scale (TFLS) provides an ecologically valid, performance-based screening tool to help identify the level of care an individual requires. 

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Age range:

16:0–90:0 years old

Publication date:

2009

Qualification level:

A

Scores/Interpretation:

T-Score and Cumulative Percentages

Scoring options:

Manual scoring

Brief and easy to use, the TFLS is well-suited for use in assisted living and nursing home settings. It is used by a range of professionals, including neuropsychologists and clinical psychologists, social workers, and pharmaceuticals researchers.

Benefits

  • Support diagnostic work-ups, placement decisions, treatment planning, evaluation of treatment outcomes, and monitoring of disease progression.
  • Focus primarily on skills likely to be affected by cognitive decline (particularly useful with individuals suffering from dementia).
  • Links to and is standardized with the WAIS-IV and WMS-IV.

Features

TFLS helps measure an individual’s ability in four functional domains:

  • Time: ability to use clocks and calendars
  • Money and Calculation: ability to count money and write checks
  • Communication: ability to make a snack and use phones and phone books
  • Memory: ability to remember simple information and to take medications