Frequency of daily living activities in older adults and their relationship with sociodemographic characteristics: A survey-based study.

Background: Activities in daily living (ADL) are the fundamental actions people must take to survive, care of themselves, and integrate into their daily environment.

Objective: This study has two objectives: 1) to offer a new questionnaire to assess daily living activities frequency and report evidence of their psychometric properties, and 2) to describe how often older adults in a region of Chile perform different types of daily living activities and to identify their relationship with their sociodemographic characteristics.

Method: 399 older adults from the Biobío Region, Chile, chosen by quota sampling, were surveyed.