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| Awareness of financial skills in dementia | | Author(s) | L E Van Wielingen, H A Tuokko, K Cramer |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 8, no 4, July 2004 |
| Pages | pp 374-380 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Financial services [older people] ; Investment finance ; Cognitive processes ; Evaluation ; Canada. |
| Annotation | The financial management capabilities of a sample of 42 community-dwelling Canadians with dementia were examined, using the Measure of Awareness of Financial Skills (MAFS). Financial tasks on the MAFS were dichotomised as simple or complex, based on Piaget's operational levels of childhood cognitive development. Severity of global cognitive impairment and executive dysfunction were significantly related to awareness of financial abilities as measured by informant-participant discrepancy scores on the MAFS. For those with mild and moderate/severe dementia, and those with and without executive dysfunction, proportion of awareness within simple and complex financial task categories were tabulated: significantly less awareness of financial abilities occurred on complex compared with simple tasks. Those with mild dementia were significantly less aware of abilities on complex items, whereas those with moderate/severe dementia were less aware of abilities, regardless of task complexity. Similar patterns of awareness were observed for those with and without executive dysfunction. These findings support literature suggesting that deficits associated with dementia first occur for complex cognitive tasks involving inductive reasoning or decision-making in novel situations, and identify where loss of function in the financial domain may first be expected. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040913211 A |
| Classmark | EA: J: WNF: DA: 4C: 7S |
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