A direct performance test for assessing activities of daily living in patients with mild degenerative dementia: The development of the ETAM and preliminary results

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 74-84

  Schmiedeberg Sohn, Anke ^a   Graessel, Elmar ^a   Luttenberger, Katharina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activities of daily living; Performance test; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY OF DAILY LIVING ASSESSMENT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA ASSESSMENT; ERLANGEN TEST OF ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING IN MILD DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING, DISABILITY AND HEALTH; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENILE DEMENTIA;

EID: 84931399342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16645464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000369550     Document Type: Article

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