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Get Up and Go Test
Aka: Get Up and Go Test, Up and Go Test
- See Also
- Activities of Daily Living
- Activities of Daily Living Scale (Katz ADL Scale)
- Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL Scale)
- Activity in the Elderly
- Technique: Direct patient to do the following
- Rise from sitting position
- Walk 10 feet
- Turn around
- Return to chair and sit down
- Interpretation
- Patient takes <20 seconds to complete test
- Adequate for independent transfers and mobility
- However, risk of falls increases, if test takes >12 seconds to complete
- Patient requires >30 seconds to complete test
- Suggests higher dependence and risk of of falls
- References
- Posiadlo (1991) J Am Geriatr Soc 39:142-8 [PubMed]