EVALUATION OF A MENTAL TEST SCORE FOR ASSESSMENT OF MENTAL IMPAIRMENT IN THE ELDERLY

Groups of organically and functionally mentally ill psychogeriatric day patients were assessed by the 37-item Roth-Hopkins test and the abbreviated ten-item Roth-Hopkins test. The scores correlated highly, correlation being equally good for both diagnostic groups. Among the functionally ill and the mild organically ill, scores improved between first and second test. The quicker, better tolerated ten-item test is a useful test of mental impairment for psychogeriatric patients in the community, as well as in institutional care.

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Depression, Dementia and Disability in the Elderly

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/bjp.150.4.482 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 150 (4) ◽

pp. 482-493 ◽

Cited By ~ 51

Author(s):

R. A. Griffiths ◽

W. R. Good ◽

N. P. Watson ◽

H. F. O'Donnell ◽

P. J. Fell ◽

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Keyword(s):

Elderly Patients ◽

Rural Community ◽

Test Score ◽

Rating Scales ◽

The Elderly ◽

Community Practice ◽

Mental Test ◽

Mental Test Score ◽

Age Related ◽

Prevalence Of Depression

A structured sample of mobile elderly patients in a rural community practice was assessed on validated rating scales for depression, dementia and disability. A total of 62% of the sample was abnormal on at least one variable. The overall prevalence of depression was 13%; the overall prevalence of dementia was either 10 or 18% depending on the criterion of Mental Test Score (MTS). Depression and dementia were related, depression being more common in females. In depressed and demented patients, MTS was age-related in those over 60 years; in depression alone, MTS was not age-related. Dementia was age-related, particularly over the age of 75. Disability increased with age and was more common in females. Disability was associated with both depression and dementia.

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How nurses' attire affects elderly psychiatric patients' ability to recognise them

Psychiatric Bulletin ◽

10.1192/pb.22.4.236 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 22 (4) ◽

pp. 236-238

Author(s):

Hugh Joseph McCreedy ◽

Peter William Bentham

Keyword(s):

Elderly Patients ◽

Test Score ◽

Psychiatric Patients ◽

Mental Test ◽

Mental Test Score ◽

Abbreviated Mental Test

The ability of elderly patients to identify a nurse wearing a uniform as opposed to mufti was investigated together with the effect of administrator attire on the Abbreviated Mental Test score (AMT). Thirty-six out of 71 patients identified a nurse wearing mufti increasing to 59/71 when wearing uniform (P < 0.005). Patients rated by a uniformed nurse had significantly higher mean AMT scores (6.1) than when rated by a nurse in mufti (5.6) (P < 0.01), and this also had a significant effect on the sensitivity in predicting an organic diagnosis.

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Regional Density and Survival in Senile Dementia

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/bjp.147.1.63 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 147 (1) ◽

pp. 63-66 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

John Colgan

Keyword(s):

Prospective Study ◽

Ct Scan ◽

Test Score ◽

Senile Dementia ◽

Alzheimer Type ◽

Cognitive Measures ◽

Mental Test ◽

Mental Test Score ◽

Senile Dementia Of The

SummaryComputed cranial tomography was performed on 48 patients with Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer Type (SDAT) who have since been followed up in a continuing prospective study. At six-months follow-up, ten patients had died; these did not differ significantly from the survivors either in mean age or duration of dementia, although the latter tended to have been shorter in the deceased. Despite having shorter histories, the deceased had performed worse on initial testing with several cognitive measures, and this was significant for the mental test score; this suggests some patients may have a more rapidly progressive form of SDAT. In a comparison between the CT scan of the deceased and survivors, the deceased were found to have significantly lower mean attenuation densities in the parietal, occipital, and left thalamic regions. The hypothesis that low attenuation density in the parietal regions of the CT scan in SDAT is associated with a more rapid demise is supported for the present period of follow-up.

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