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Table 1 Overview of sections within the BelRAI Screener and BelRAI Social Supplement used in Stage II: Phase 2

From: Towards a standardized approach of assessing social context of persons receiving home care in Flanders, Belgium: the development and test of a social supplement to the interRAI instruments

BelRAI Social Supplement

BelRAI Screener

A. Environmental assessment

Number of people living in the household, description of the living arrangements, living conditions, other environmental factors, and access to basic services.

B. Civic engagement

Mobility indoors and outdoors, Use of aids, communication skills, and daytime activities.

C. Psychosocial well-being

Social engagement, unsettled relationships, care denial, feelings of loneliness and social isolation, self-reported mood, strengths, stress, guidance in religion, frequency of social interactions, and financial vulnerability.

D. Informal care and support

Providing care and support to others, Receiving care and support from others, and characteristics of key family caregivers.

A. IADL (Performance and capacity)

Meal preparation, ordinary housework, managing finances, managing medications, phone use, stairs, shopping, and transportation.

B. ADL

Personal hygiene, mobility, toilet use, and eating.

C. Cognition

Cognitive skills for daily decision making, short-memory problem, procedural memory problem, and making self understood.

D. Psychological problems

Danger to self, danger to others, inability to care for self, addiction/dependency, and psychiatric symptoms.

E. Behavioral problems

Wandering, verbal abuse, physical abuse, socially inappropriate behavior, inappropriate sexual behavior, and resists care.