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| Cognitive test performance in a community-based nondemented elderly sample in rural India: the Indo-US cross-national dementia epidemiology study | | Author(s) | Mary Ganguli, Vijay Chandra, Joanne E Gilby |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 8, no 4, Winter 1996 |
| Pages | pp 507-524 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Cognitive processes ; Evaluation ; Illiterate persons ; Rural areas ; India. |
| Annotation | Interpretation of cognitive test performance among individuals from a given population requires an understanding of cognitive norms in that population. Little is known about normative test performance among older, illiterate non-English speaking individuals. An age-stratified random sample of men and women aged 55 years and older was drawn from a community-based population in the rural area of Ballabgarh in northern India. The participants spoke Hindi, had little or no education and were largely illiterate. A battery of neuropsychological tests, specially adapted from the CERAD neuropsychological battery, which was administered to this sample, is described. Subjects also underwent a protocol diagnostic examination for dementia. Norms for test performance of 374 non-demented subjects on these tests are reported across the sample and also by age, gender, and literacy. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980303276 A |
| Classmark | EA: DA: 4C: VHI: RL: 7FA |
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