Activities of daily living in dementia: Revalidation of the E-ADL test and suggestions for further development

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Luttenberger, Katharina ^a   Schmiedeberg, Anke ^a   Gräßel, Elmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activities of daily living; Dementia; Performance test; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE ASSESSMENT SCALE; ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; ERLANGEN TEST FOR ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MOOD DISORDER; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VALIDATION STUDY; COGNITION; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; E ADL TEST; MEMORY; MOOD; NURSING HOME; PSYCHOMETRY; VERY ELDERLY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84869880512     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-12-208     Document Type: Article

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