COPPES-R

The Optimal Aging Center is happy to announce the web version of the California Older Person’s Positive Experiences Schedule-Revised (COPPES-R).  The COPPES-R assists an older adult who may be struggling to identify those positive, rewarding, or valued activities that can help to reverse the downward spiral of depressed mood.  The ability to identify these types of activities can often be difficult when a person is struggling with fatigue or apathy. The COPPES-R contains a series of 46 items that can help your client think of things that are do-able and that can improve their mood. Meant to be best used in collaboration with a therapist, these items can help them to discover activities that they may have found enjoyable or meaningful in the past and new activities they may want to try out and add to their schedule now.  Now available from the Optimal Aging Center website in both a paper and pen version as well as the new web version, where a therapist can direct a client.  The client will be able to take the scale online, and receive a report they can then copy and paste into a word processing program such as word.  This report provides brief feedback based on the selections made as well as the raw data for further evaluation as needed.  Please remind your client to copy and paste the report since to preserve client privacy it is not save