Cross-cultural application of the repeatable battery for the assessment of neuropsychological status (RBANS): Performances of elderly Chinese Singaporeans

Clinical Neuropsychologist

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 811-826

  Lim, May Li ^a,b   Collinson, Simon Lowes ^a   Feng, Lei ^a,b   Ng, Tze Pin ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Ageing; Education; Ethnicity; Normative studies

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SINGAPORE; STANDARD;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SINGAPORE;

EID: 77954060973     PISSN: 13854046     EISSN: 17444144     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13854046.2010.490789     Document Type: Article

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