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Everyday problem solving among individuals with Alzheimer's disease
Author(s)	Sherry L Willis, Rebecca Allen-Burge, Melissa M Dolan
Journal title	The Gerontologist, vol 38, no 5, October 1998
Pages	pp 569-577
Keywords	Dementia ; Self care capacity ; Cognitive processes ; Evaluation ; United States of America.
Annotation	Loss of functioning on complex tasks of daily living is an early indicator of dementia. The performance of 65 older adults (age range 50-89) with mild to moderate levels of Alzheimer's disease (AD) was examined on the Everyday Problems Test for the Cognitively Challenged Elderly (EPCCE), self-report inventories of daily living of functional performance, and a broad battery of clinical and neuropsychological measures. The EPCCE was designed to assess older adults on a set of complex tasks of daily living that involved not only global cognitive processes, but also higher-order executive functions. Participants solved an average of 45% of EPCCE tasks with significant differences in scores by disease severity. Performance was significantly related to global cognitive functioning and disease severity, and in particular to executive functions. Significant additional variance was accounted for by these executive functions beyond the variance accounted for by global cognitive measures. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-990309004 A
Classmark	EA: CA: DA: 4C: 7T
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