Mini-mental state examination sentence writing among community-dwelling elderly adults in brazil: Text fluency and grammar complexity

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1732-1737

  Neri, Anita Liberalesso ^a   Ongaratto, Lia Lopes ^a   Yassuda, Mnica Sanches ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

aging; cognitive status; fluency; syntactical complexity; text production

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EDUCATION; GENDER; GRAMMATICAL COMPLEXITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE; VERBAL FLUENCY; WRITING;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAZIL; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MENTAL COMPETENCY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84866680529     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S104161021200097X     Document Type: Article

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