PROVIDENCE CARE Functional Assessment Staging Test

(FAST) - Used for Dementia Patients

1. No difficulty, either subjectively or objectively.

2. Complains of forgetting location of objects. Subjective work difficulties.
3. Decreased job functioning evident to co-workers. Difficulty in traveling to new locations.
Decreased organizational capacity.
4. Decreased ability to perform complex tasks, e.g. planning dinner for guests, handling personal
finances (such as forgetting to pay bills), difficulty marketing, etc.*
5. Requires assistance in choosing proper clothing to wear for the day, season, or occasion, e.g.
patient may wear the same clothing repeatedly, unless supervised. *

6a. Improperly putting on clothes without assistance or cuing (e.g. may put street clothes on over
night clothes , or put shoes on wrong feet, or have difficulty buttoning clothing) occasionally or
more frequently over the past weeks.*
6b. Unable to bathe (shower) properly (e.g., difficulty adjusting bath-water (shower) temperature)
occasionally or more frequently over the past weeks. *
6c. Inability to handle mechanics of toileting (e.g., forgets to flush the toilet, does not wipe properly or
properly dispose of toilet tissue) occasionally or more frequently over the past weeks. *
6d. Urinary incontinence (occasionally or more frequently over the past weeks). *
6e. Fecal incontinence (occasionally or more frequently over the past weeks). *
7a. Ability to speak limited to approximately a half a dozen intelligible different words or fewer, in the
course of an average day or in the course of an intensive interview.
7b. Speech ability limited to the use of a single intelligible word in an average day or in the course of
an interview (the person may repeat the word over and over).
7c. Ambulatory ability lost (cannot walk without personal assistance).
7d. Cannot sit up without assistance (e.g., the individual will fall over if there are no lateral rests
[arms] on the chair).
7e. Loss of ability to smile.
7f. Loss of ability to hold up head independently.

Functional Assessment Staging (FAST): Check highest consecutive level of disability

*Scored primarily on the basis of information obtained from a knowledgeable informant and/or caregiver.

FAST scoring instructions:

The FAST Stage is the highest consecutive level of disability. For clinical purposes, in addition to staging
the level of disability, additional, non-ordinal (nonconsecutive) deficits should be noted, since these
additional deficits are of clear clinical relevance.

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 PROVIDENCE CARE Palliative Performance Scale
(PPSv2) - Used for ALL Patients

PPS Ambulation Activity & Evidence of Self-Care Intake Conscious Level

Level Disease
100% Full Normal activity & work. No Full Normal Full
evidence of disease.
90% Full Normal activity & work. Full Normal Full
Some evidence of disease.
80% Full Normal activity with effort. Full Normal or Full
Some evidence of disease. reduced
70% Reduced Unable normal job/work. Full Normal or Full
Extensive disease. reduced
60% Reduced Unable hobby/house work. Occasional Normal or Full or confusion
Extensive disease. assistance reduced
necessary
50% Mainly Sit/ Unable to do any work. Considerable Normal or Full or confusion
Lie Extensive disease. assistance reduced
required
40% Mainly in Unable to do most activity. Mainly assistance Normal or Full or drowsy
Bed Extensive disease. reduced +/- Confusion
30% Totally Bed Unable to do any activity. Total Care Normal or Full or drowsy
Bound Extensive disease. reduced +/- Confusion
20% Totally Bed Unable to do any activity. Total Care Minimal to Full or drowsy
Bound Extensive disease. sips +/- Confusion
10% Totally Bed Unable to do any activity. Total Care Mouth care Drowsy or coma
Bound Extensive disease. only +/- Confusion

0% Death

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