Assessment of Social Cognition in Frail Older Adults and Its Association With SocialFunctioning in the Nursing Home
Author(s) -
Allyson Washburn,
Laura P. Sands,
Pamela J. Walton
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
the gerontologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1758-5341
pISSN - 0016-9013
DOI - 10.1093/geront/43.2.203
Subject(s) - cognition , psychology , social cognition , association (psychology) , clinical psychology , cognitive skill , social skills , interpersonal communication , gerontology , developmental psychology , medicine , psychiatry , social psychology , psychotherapist
The aims of this study were to reliably assess a range of social-cognitive functioning in frail seniors and to examine the association between measures of social cognition and nurses' ratings of residents' social functioning in a nursing home.
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