title: Relationship between Bender Designs and Basic Living Skills of geriatric psychiatric patients.
abstract: 35 geriatric psychiatric patients were given the Bender-Gestalt and examined on level of Basic Living Skills Assessment. Significant inverse relationships were found between scores on the Bender-Gestalt and five of the seven Basic Living Skills Assessment scales indicating a decrease in patients' functioning with increased visual-motor impairment scores. Skills involving gross motor behaviors were moderately related to poor Bender performance (-.47). These findings suggest the utility of the Basic Living Skills Assessment in identifying the nature and extent of those living skills deficits associated with assessed visual-motor impairment.
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D001538:Bender-Gestalt Test; D003704:Dementia / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D009048:Motor Skills; D014796:Visual Perception