title: Physical self-maintenance, mental status, and personality in institutionalized elderly adults.
abstract: Administered the projective Hand Test (HT) to 52 institutionalized elderly adults in order to establish its validity in measuring individual differences in relationships between mental status and physical self-maintenance ability. Results suggested substantial covariance among level of self-care, organic dysfunction, and personality, independent of length of institutionalization. Implications of these data for the functional assessment of institutionalized older adults are discussed.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003704:Dementia / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007326:Institutionalization; D008297:Male; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011594:Psychometrics; D012648:Self Care / Q000523:psychology*