title: Assessing behavioural and cognitive impairment in dementia using an informant's report: evidence from the CAMDEX interview.
abstract: The consistency of measures from informants' report and from objective testing, both incorporated into the CAMDEX interview, was tested for elderly persons with mild dementia (n = 46), with moderate dementia (n = 41), and without cognitive impairment (controls, n = 56). Informants' reports permitted grading severity of dementia and provided measures of memory and mental functioning in everyday activities highly related to indices derived from objective testing.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Modena, Italy.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cipolli
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bolzani
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pinelli
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Neri
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003704:Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D015577:Geriatric Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012720:Severity of Illness Index