Cognitive assessments for older adults: which ones are used by Canadian therapists and why. Can J Occup Ther. 2007;74(5):370-81.Douglas A, Liu L, Warren S, et al. Cognitive assess- ments for older adults: which ones are used by Canadian therapists and why. Can J Occup Ther. 2007;...
Our Digital Cognitive Assessments CogniFit digital tests are designed to measure a specific areas of cognition and are grouped together to form customized batteries based on the unique requirements of the study design and population. Learn more about our different tests and how they can support the ...
After discharge, follow-up assessments occurred at 1, 2, 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 48, 60, and 72 months. Assessors were masked to the study hypotheses and delirium status of the participants. eTable 1 in Supplement 1 describes the participant flow and follow-up to 72 months. ...
Neuropsychological tests were conducted as a part of prior diagnostic assessments (within a time-window of six months prior to study measurements) or collected during the study data collection. Of note, the association between UEF and neuropsychological tests is beyond the scope of the current paper...
Portuguese were produced independently by two bilingual researchers; one was certified as a sworn translator and was unfamiliar with the material translated and the concepts involved; and the other was a bilingual specialist in neuropsychology who had extensive experience with cognitive assessments. ...
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as are how readily an administrator can be trained and the sensitivity and specificity of the test. An additional consideration when serial assessments are required is whether learning effects bias the performance. The Maastricht Aging Study revealed that memory recognition was retained for items that ...
Older adults have both worse general cognition and worse social cognition. A frequent suggestion is that worse social cognition is due to worse general cognition. However, previous studies have often provided contradictory evidence. The current study exa
Quality of life (QoL) of older adults has become a pivotal concern of the public and health system. Previous studies found that both cognitive decline and neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) can affect QoL in older adults. However, it remains unclear how these symptoms are related to each other an...
Clinicians have an increasingly limited time to see patients, and clinical teams often lack access to a neuropsychologist to conduct cognitive assessments. Moreover, in the absence of effective interventions for cognitive deficits, clinicians may reason that quantifying their severity is unlikely to be ...