Older adults and capacity-related assessment: Promise and caution

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 297-316

  Baird, Anne D ^a   Solcz, Stephanie L ^a   Gale Ross, Reagan ^a   Blake, Treena M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANADA; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; READING; SCORING SYSTEM; SENESCENCE; THINKING; AGING; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; LANGUAGE TEST; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CANADA; COGNITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; READING;

EID: 68249161425     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610730902922085     Document Type: Article

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