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Diagnostic accuracy of Instrumental Activities of Daily Living for dementia in community-dwelling older adults.

Background: many people living with dementia remain underdiagnosed and unrecognised. Screening strategies are important for early detection. Objective: to examine whether the Lawton's Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) scale, compared with other cognitive screening tools--the Mini-Mental...

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Published in:Age & Ageing Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 551 - 558
Main Authors: HUI-FEN MAO, LING-HUI CHANG, ATHENA YI-JUNG TSAI, WEN-NI WENNIE HUANG, LI-YU TANG, HUEY-JANE LEE, YU SUN, TA-FU CHEN, KER-NENG LIN, PEI-NING WANG, YEA-ING LOTUS SHYU, MING-JANG CHIU
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Jul2018
Subjects:
Interviewing
Medical screening
Activities of daily living
Cross-sectional method
Old age
Diagnosis of dementia
Discriminant analysis
Research methodology
Scientific observation
Questionnaires
Independent living
Receiver operating characteristic curves
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