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Practical issues in cognitive screening of elderly illiterate populations in developing countries
— the Indo-US Cross-National Dementia Epidemiology Study | | Author(s) | V Chandra, M Ganguli, G Ratcliff |
| Journal title | Aging: Clinical and Experimental Research, vol 10, no 5, October 1998 |
| Pages | pp 349-357 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Screening ; Educational status [elderly] ; Illiterate elderly ; Developing countries ; Cross national surveys ; India ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The study of the epidemiology of dementia - specifically Alzheimer's disease (AD) - in developing countries requires specialised screening instruments and personnel. Cultural and sub-cultural differences among populations are highly relevant to the design of such instruments. It is also widely recognised that low education and illiteracy pose considerable challenges to reliable and valid cognitive screening. The overall objectives of the Indo-US Cross-National Dementia Epidemiology Study were: to determine prevalence and incidence of, and risk factors for AD and other dementias in a defined Indian community; and to compare these results with those found in a defined US community. In this paper, the authors related the practical issues involved in the development and administration of a modified cognitive screening battery that would: be culturally fair, psychometrically sound, and valid for a population with little or no education; be optimally sensitive and specific for dementia; and not only allow the identification but also the more detailed characterisation of dementia, and of normal cognitive ageing. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990208227 A |
| Classmark | EA: 3V: F:V: F:VHI: 7B: 3K: 7FA: 7T |
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