Predicting everyday functional abilities of dementia patients with the mini-mental state examination

Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 62-70

  Razani, Jill ^a   Wong, Jennifer T ^b   Dafaeeboini, Natalia ^a   Edwards Lee, Terri ^c   Lu, Po ^d   Alessi, Cathy ^d   Josephson, Karen ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Activities of daily living; Dementia; Direct assessment of functional status; Functional ability; Mini mental state examination

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; ORIENTATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 63049096361     PISSN: 08919887     EISSN: 15525708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891988708328217     Document Type: Article

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