Solving Ability Test Preparation Based On The Daily Problems Of The Elderly In-kind Operation

On the basis of review and analyze domestic and foreign literatures, as well asinvestigate and interview the elders with opening questionnaire, establish thetheoretical structure system for the elders’ ability of solving the everyday problemsand compile questionnaire draft, Considering the importance, the representativenessand the maneuverability of all kinds of everyday problems what the eldersencountered in the daily lives, and then screen the items through the theoreticaldiscussion and referring trial test results, eventually the formal questionnaire wasdeveloped and used to assess subjects’ ability. Use a variety of measurementindicators to analysis item and examine the reliability and validity of the test.‘Performance-based assessment on the Chinese elders’ ability of everydayproblem solving’ based on the observed task of daily living, consists of45items;divide this assessment into taking medicine, using telephone, using electricalappliances and financial management four subscales. Item discrimination is very high,and has good reliability and validity; the outcomes of reliability analysis and validityanalysis are good. And the outcome of the confirmatory analysis indicates that thestructural equation model fits the data well. The questionnaire is a suitable tool toassess the elders’ ability of solving the everyday problems. There is significantdifference exists respectively between ages, culture levels, using the experiencedifferences of the elders’ ability of solving the everyday problems.