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Measures of everyday competence in older adults with cognitive impairment
— a systematic review | | Author(s) | Lawla L F Law, Fiona Barnett, Matthew K Yau, Marion A Gray |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 41, no 1, January 2012 |
| Pages | pp 9-16 |
| Source | http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/ http://www.bgs.org.uk/ |
| Keywords | Cognitive impairment ; Dementia ; Living alone ; Competence ; Measurement ; Evaluation ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | This study aimed to conduct a systematic review on instruments available for evaluating the competence and problem-solving abilities of older adults with cognitive impairment and to critically review the measurement properties of the identified instruments. A literature search was carried out covering the time period between January 1995 and December 2010. Reference lists of the included papers were also manually searched. Five instruments were included, all of which focused their framework on Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) domains which met well with suggestions from other studies on the importance of IADL in determining an older individual's capability to live independently in the community. No available instruments for the moderate to severe impairment group were identified under this review. The authors conclude that few existing instruments to assess the ability of everyday problem-solving of older people with cognitive impairment could be identified in the literature. Further research validating them against functional, real-world outcomes is needed. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-120503002 A |
| Classmark | E4: EA: K8: DPB: 3R: 4C: 3A:6KC |
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