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| The utility of a modified object memory test in distinguishing between different age groups of Alzheimer's disease patients and normal controls | | Author(s) | David A Loewenstein, Trinidad Arguelles, Amarilis Acevedo |
| Journal title | Journal of Mental Health and Aging, vol 7, no 3, Fall 2001 |
| Pages | pp 317-324 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Memory disorders ; Age groups [elderly] ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Evaluation ; Performance ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The Fuld Object Memory Evaluation (OME) has been shown to be an effective and relatively culture-fair neuropsychological measure for identifying memory disorders and early dementia. Here, the utility of a three-trial version of the OME is investigated with three different age groups, consisting of 268 Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients and 144 normal controls (NC). An OME total retrieval cut-off score of 19 of 30 possible points for two groups of patients, one aged 68 and under, the other 69-78, resulted in correct classification of AD patients more than 92.5% of the time. Misclassification errors for normal older controls were less than 4% within these two age groups. An older group of AD patients (aged 79-90) could be classified with greater sensitivity and only a modest loss of specificity when the total retrieval cut-off score for impairment was only mildly correlated with OME scores for both AD and NC groups. There was no significant correlation between OME scores and level of educational attainment. Thus, the three-trial OME holds promise as a useful memory test, which may be beneficial with older people with limited educational backgrounds. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020114214 A |
| Classmark | EA: EH: BB: DB: 4C: 5H: 7T |
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