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P3‐261: IMPROVING DETECTION OF DEMENTIA IN AN ARABIC SPEAKING POPULATION WITH LOW EDUCATION: COMBINING THE ROWLAND UNIVERSAL DEMENTIA ASSESSMENT SCALE AND THE INFORMANT QUESTIONNAIRE ON COGNITIVE DECLINE IN THE ELDERLY
Author(s) -
Nielsen T. Rune,
Thi Phung Thien Kieu,
Chaaya Monique,
Atweh Samir,
Prince Martin,
Waldemar Gunhild
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1016/j.jalz.2014.05.1353
Subject(s) - dementia , functional illiteracy , medicine , population , logistic regression , cognition , gerontology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , disease , environmental health , political science , law
entiate between the 2 groups of subjects. Specificity and sensitivity measures will be used in selecting the faces. A t-test will be used to compare performance between the 2 groups on the final set of faces to ensure discriminant validity. Conclusions: Following the successful validation of the test, it will be normed on the local population and then used as a clinical tool in the assessment of patients with Alzheimer’s disease as an indicator of their stage in the disease.