Assessing behavioural and cognitive impairment in dementia using an informant's report: Evidence from the CAMDEX interview

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 404-406

  Cipolli, Carlo ^a   Pinelli, Marina ^b   Bolzani, Roberto ^b   Neri, Mirco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; FAMILY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA; FAMILY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0032176066     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1998.87.2.404     Document Type: Article

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