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| Temporal orientation in a national community sample of older people | | Author(s) | Justin Kington, Robert Stewart |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 26, no 2, February 2011 |
| Pages | pp 144-149 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/gps |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Cognitive impairment ; Clinical surveys ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | The purpose of the study was to investigate how often older people know the correct answers to questions about time orientation (knowledge of the day, date, month and year), and what factors might affect performance with these. Data were analysed from the second British National Psychiatric Morbidity Study for people aged 60 years and above, carried out in 2000. In the original survey, 2007 people aged 60 years or older had been asked orientation questions as part of the modified Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICSm). Using this data error rates for time orientation were calculated. Associations between performance on these questions and other covariates (eg. sociodemographic factors, estimated verbal IQ, education, mental disorder) were further explored using logistic regression. Overall nearly 20% of the sample did not know the correct date. Orientation errors for day, month and year were substantially lower. After adjustment, increased age and lower verbal IQ remained significantly associated with date orientation errors. Concludes that deficits in time (and especially date) orientation should be borne in mind by clinicians when making brief assessments of cognitive function. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-110815003 A |
| Classmark | DA: E4: 3G: 4C |
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