title: Automated cognitive assessment of elderly patients: a comparison of two types of response device.
abstract: Groups of 14 cognitively impaired elderly people were tested on two automated cognitive tests on several occasions. Patients registered their responses using either a touch-sensitive screen or a board with illuminated response buttons. The results indicate that the touch-sensitive screen is probably a more suitable response device than the button-board. Suggestions that it would prove disadvantageous to elderly patients were not supported, and its continued use is recommended.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003201:Computers; D003704:Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall; D008838:Microcomputers; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests / Q000295:instrumentation*; D009949:Orientation; D011594:Psychometrics