'Ngana minyarti? What is this?' Development of cognitive questions for the Kimberley Indigenous Cognitive Assessment: Research

Australasian Journal on Ageing

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 115-119

  Smith, Kate ^a,b,c,f   Logiudice, Dina ^d   Dwyer, Anna ^b   Thomas, Jenny ^b   Flicker, Leon ^b   Lautenschlager, Nicola T ^c   Almeida, Osvaldo P ^c   Atkinson, David ^c,e  

^a Kimberley Aged and Community Services

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d NATIONAL AGEING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^e Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Council   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assessment; Cognition; Cross cultural; Dementia; Indigenous

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547781298     PISSN: 14406381     EISSN: 17416612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-6612.2007.00234.x     Document Type: Article

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