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Table 3 Comprehensive batteries

From: Batteries assessing health related fitness in the elderly: a brief review

Battery

Task

PPT

Writing a sentence

Simulated eating

Lifting a book and putting it on a shelf

Putting on and removing a jacket

Picking up a small object from the floor

Turning 360°

Walking 15.2 m (PPT-7)

Climbing one flight of stairs

Counting the number of flights of stairs (PPT-9)

Time movement battery

Lie to sit

Sit to lie

Sit to stand

6-m (20 ft) forward walk

3-m (10 ft) back walk

Figure-8 walk

Stepping over obstacles while walking

Supine floor to stand

Stairs: up 4 steps

Stairs: down 4 steps

PPME

Bed mobility

Transfer skills

Multiple stands from chair

Standing balance

Step up

Ambulation