Assessment Tools for DementiaKathryn Kilpatrick
Health Care; (2) to show the methodological design and procedure to obtain a representative sample of patients with probable dementia; and (3) to report the main characteristics of the sample collected in the context of the study "Characteristics and needs of people with probable dementia." The...
Facial expressions convey reliable nonverbal signals about pain and thus are very useful for assessing pain in patients with limited communicative ability, such as patients with dementia. In this review, we present an overview of the available pain observation tools and how they make use of facial...
Synopsis Using standardized history, physical and neurological exami-nations, laboratory evaluation, and tests of cognitive performance, mood, and functional status, 155 patients admitted consecutively to an outpatient dementia clinic were diagnosed as" demented" or"DOI...
The literature on pain in dementia patients is reviewed. A summary of methods for assessment of pain in demented elderly persons and an examination of stud... JC Huffman,ME Kunik - 《Gerontologist》 被引量: 219发表: 2000年 Pain Assessment in Noncommunicative Elderly persons--PAINE. OBJECTIVES:...
Virtual reality training system for patients with dementia Conclusively, the system proved to have challenging tasks for dementia patients, but would benefit from additional research in human machine interaction for elderly people, as well as in determining the fun factors for an audience that ... ...
CONCLUSION: Appropriate use of PET for evaluating early dementia in geriatric patients can add valuable information to the clinical work-up, without adding to the overall costs of evaluation and management, resulting in a greater number of patients being accurately diagnosed for the same level of ...
Background: People dying with advanced dementia are often unable to effectively self-report pain and are at risk of under-assessment which may hinder pain diagnosis and management. Pain assessment tools for use in advanced dementia are a... DW Jansen,Passmore,Buchanan,... - Sage Publications 被...
Functional living skills assessment: a standardized measure of high-order activities of daily living in patients with dementia AIM: Performance measures are tools aimed to directly evaluate social function in older adults. The authors present the standardization of a new direct per... Gian Mauro Manz...
Better tools for assessing cognitive impairment in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are required to enable diagnosis of the disease before substantial neurodegeneration has taken place and to allow for detection of subtle changes in the early stages of progression of the disease. The ...