Informant Ratings for Assessing Agitation Assessment# Items (estimated # tapping behavior problems)Scale Dementia Behavior Disturbance Scale (DBD) (Baumgarten, Becker, & Gauthier 1990) 28 (19) 5-pt frequency Disruptive Behavior Scale (DBS) (Beck, 1997); (Chafetz et al., 1987) 45 (all) ...
The Clinical Dementia Rating scale has been used in clinical research for decades. The Vargas-Gonzales study raises concerns about the subjective nature of the instrument by indicating that sex, the relationship of the informant to the participant, and the ethnicity of the participant can influenc...
The Dementia Rating Scale (DRS), proposed by Steven Mattis (1988), it has been very used to assess patients with dementia both in clinical practice and research. Consists of 5 subscales: Attention, Initiation/Perseveration, Construction, Conceptualization and Memory. The Dementia Rating Scale was ...
In the first study of its kind, researchers used anartificial intelligence(AI) technique known as semi-supervised machine learning to analyze data from 31,477 older adults. They found that the prevalence rate ofdementiain adults aged 60 or over in India could be 8.44%—equating to 10.08 millio...
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One of the most widely used methodologies is the Global Deterioration Scale/Functional Assessment Staging (GDS/FAST) system. This system has been studied extensively and proven to be reliable and valid for staging dementia in Alzheimer's... S Auer,B Reisberg - 《International Psychogeriatrics》 被...
Obesity, a worldwide epidemic with numerous health implications, is gaining traction as a risk factor for dementia. The need for research is evident: at least 2.8 million obese or overweight adults die each year according to the World Health Organization, and more than two-thirds of American ad...
The criterion used was the degree of severity of dementia. Without exception, the test performances of the groups with the three degrees of severity differed highly significantly from one another on all subscales. Seventy-two percent of the variance on the total score for the HDS was due to ...
(roughly resembling the shape ofthe sun). Zhǐshì is the other type that denotes ideas by indicating things in a metaphorical way; for example, ‘上’ with the focus on the upper part, is later used to indicate a higher level or upward. Apparently, they have a high degree of iconicity...
1 The Washington University Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) scale is frequently used to stage dementia severity and yields both a global (CDR-GS) and sum of boxes (CDR-SB) score.2 While the CDR-GS is typically used for staging purposes, the CDR-SB score is a more detailed quantitative ...