Improving the Clinical Recognition of Very Mild Dementia Using Multiple Levels of Assessment
作者:
Andreas Ströhle,
A. Richert,
H. Maier,
H. Gutzmann,
期刊:
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
(OVID Available online 1995)
卷期:
Volume 3,
issue 1
页码: 34-42
ISSN:1064-7481
年代: 1995
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Neuropsychological test batteries alone are often unable to differentiate very mild dementia from both normal aging and mild dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT). The authors hypothesized that some of the difficulties of neuropsychological tests in the identification of very mild dementia could be overcome by the inclusion of additional levels of assessment (activities of daily living, psychopathology, and subjective complaints). Three groups (very mild dementia, mild-to-moderate DAT, and healthy control subjects) of community-dwelling older persons were assessed on cognitive and noncognitive variables. Results indicated that noncognitive variables improved prediction of group assignment. For accurate identification of all patients with very mild dementia, in addition to neuropsychological variables, subjective complaints of impaired orientation and disturbances of apperception were necessary and sufficient.
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