Patient versus informant reported quality of life in the earliest phases of Alzheimer's disease

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1132-1138

  Vogel, Asmus ^a   Mortensen, Erik Lykke ^b   Hasselbalch, Steen G ^a   Andersen, Birgitte B ^a   Waldemar, Gunhild ^a  

^a Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Anosognosia; Awareness of deficits; Dementia; Neuropsychiatric symptoms; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANOSOGNOSIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGNOSIA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AWARENESS; CAREGIVERS; FAMILY RELATIONS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33845931565     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: 10991166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gps.1619     Document Type: Article

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