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| Determining the capacity of demented nursing home residents to name a health care proxy | | Author(s) | Paulette Sansone, Louise Schmitt, Jeffrey Nichols |
| Journal title | Clinical Gerontologist, vol 19, no 4, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 35-50 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Cognitive processes ; Health services ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | To explore what degree cognitive impairment impacts consistency of health care decisions, 185 long-term care residents were interviewed three times at weekly intervals about their choices regarding a health care proxy. Several measures of cognitive impairment including the Folstein Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE), the Global Deterioration Scale and the diagnosis of dementia were used. Findings revealed that 39% of those with a diagnosis of dementia made decisions that were consistent with and comparable to those of their non-demented peers demonstrating that patients diagnosed with dementia may still possess significant health care decisional capacity. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990211205 A |
| Classmark | EA: DA: L: 7T |
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