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Assessment of kendrick cognitive tests for the elderly
Author(s) -
Rai G. S.,
Phongsathorn V.,
Scott L. C.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
international journal of geriatric psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1099-1166
pISSN - 0885-6230
DOI - 10.1002/gps.930060311
Subject(s) - dementia , depression (economics) , alzheimer's disease , test (biology) , cognition , cognitive impairment , medicine , cognitive disorder , predictive value , psychology , cognitive test , psychiatry , gerontology , clinical psychology , disease , biology , paleontology , economics , macroeconomics
Abstract The Kendrick cognitive tests for the elderly were administered to 42 elderly patients with SDAT, 32 normal elderly, 10 patients with depression and 20 elderly patients with multi‐infract dementia. The scores on KDCT and KOLT revealed significant differences between those who had dementia and those who had non‐dementing illness. However, initial test patterns for KOLT and KDCT and test‐retest patterns revealed some overlap. For diagnosis of dementia, if one uses the test‐retest patterns assigned by Kendrick to the various diagnostic categories, the tests have a specificity of 100% and a sensitivity of only 39% thus suggesting that they are of limited value in predicting the presence or absence of dementia in an individual.