Assessment scales in dementia

Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 349-358

  Sheehan, Bart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment; dementia; scales

Indexed keywords

6 CIT TEST; ABBREVIATED MENTAL TEST SCORE; ADDENBROOKES COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE SCALE; ALZHEIMERS DISEASE ASSESSMENT SCALE; BARTHEL INDEX; BEHAVE AD; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRISTOL ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING SCALE; CAMBRIDGE ASSESSMENT OF MEMORY AND COGNITION; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CLINICAL DEMENTIA RATING SCALE; CLINICIANS GLOBAL IMPRESSION OF CHANGE; CLOCK DRAWING TEST; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHEN MANSFIELD AGITATION INVENTORY; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CORNELL SCALE FOR DEPRESSION IN DEMENTIA; DEMENTIA; DEMQOL TEST; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EUROQOL; FACE VALIDITY; FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENCE MEASURE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER ASSESSMENT OF COGNITION TEST; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; GLOBAL DETERIORATION SCALE; GOLD STANDARD; HAMILTON SCALE; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; INFORMANT QUESTIONNAIRE ON COGNITIVE DECLINE IN THE ELDERLY; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LAWTON INSTRUMENTAL ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING SCALE; MEMORY IMPAIRMENT SCREEN; MENTAL DETERIORATION; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL TEST; MINI COG TEST; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MONTGOMERY ASBERG DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; MONTREAL COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NEUROPSYCHIATRIC INVENTORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SHORT FORM 36; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TEST YOUR MEMORY TEST; ZARIT BURDEN INTERVIEW;

EID: 84868215591     PISSN: 17562856     EISSN: 17562864     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1756285612455733     Document Type: Article

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