Category verbal fluency test performance in Chinese elderly with Alzheimer's disease

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 120-124

  Mok, Edward Hei Lim ^a   Lam, Linda Chiu Wa ^a,c   Chiu, Helen Fung Kum ^a,b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Jockey Club Centre for Positive Ageing   (Hong Kong)

^c TAI PO HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Category verbal fluency test; Dementia

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CITY PLANNING; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 4344630689     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000079190     Document Type: Article

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