Measuring Life‐Space Mobility in Community‐Dwelling Older Adults

Objectives: To evaluate the validity and reliability of a standardized approach for assessing life‐space mobility (the University of Alabama at Birmingham Study of Aging Life‐Space Assessment (LSA)) and its ability to detect changes in life‐space over time in community‐dwelling older adults.

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