Français
-
Living with Illness
- Populations
- Advocating for Care
- Assessment Tools
- Caregiver/caregiving/providing care
- Communication
- Decisions / Decision making
- Dignity
- Conditions/Diseases
- Emotional Health
- Financial
- Nutrition / Hydration / Food / Eating / Drinking
- Palliative Care Emergency
- Palliative Sedation / Sedation for Palliative Purposes
- Research
- Symptoms/What to Expect
- Provinces
- Palliative Care
- Treatments/Interventions
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
- Remembering and memories
- Educators
- Author
- LMC
- Eating and Drinking
- Diets
- Final Days
- Grief / Loss / Bereavement
- Programs and Services
- For Professionals
- More
Tools for Practice
CHESS Assessment Scale
Description:
The Changes in Health, End-stage disease and Signs and Symptoms (CHESS) scale was designed to identify individuals at risk of serious decline and as a measure to predict mortality. CHESS, originally developed for use in institutionalized care of older adults, has been adapted for use with the home care.
Author(s):
John P. Hirdes, PhD, Dinnus H. Frijters, PhD, Gary F.Teare, PhD