Screening for Alzheimer's dementia at age 78 with short psychometric instruments

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 548-559

  Jungwirth, S ^a   Zehetmayer, S ^b   Bauer, P ^b   Weissgram, S ^a   Tragl, K H ^a   Fischer, P ^a,c  

^a LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c DANUBE HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

Delayed selective reminding; Longitudinal; Population based; Verbal fluency; VITA study

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED SELECTIVE REMINDING TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN FIGURE DRAWING TEST; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMING TEST; POCKET SMELL TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; SCREENING TEST; SUBJECTIVE MEMORY COMPLAINTS; TEN POINT CLOCK TEST; TRAIL MAKING TEST B; VALIDATION STUDY; VERBAL FLUENCY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MASS SCREENING; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 67649135975     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610209008904     Document Type: Article

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