Environmental Adaptations Improve Everyday Action Performance in Alzheimer's Disease: Empirical Support From Performance-Based Assessment

Neuropsychology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 448-457

  Giovannetti, Tania ^a   Bettcher, Brianne Magouirk ^a   Libon, David J ^b   Brennan, Laura ^a   Sestito, Nicole ^a   Kessler, Rachel K ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UMDNJ School of Osteopathic Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

activities of daily living; instrumental activities of daily living; naturalistic action; rehabilitation; remediation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; NATURALISTIC ACTION TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VERBAL LEARNING; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 34548175462     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.21.4.448     Document Type: Article

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