Ability to manage everyday technology: A comparison of persons with dementia or mild cognitive impairment and older adults without cognitive impairment

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 462-469

  Malinowsky, C ^a   Almkvist, O ^a   Kottorp, A ^a   Nygrd, L ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; IADL; MCI

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGE; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77957820302     PISSN: 17483107     EISSN: 17483115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17483107.2010.496098     Document Type: Article

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