Interactive influences on BVRT performance level: geriatric considerations.
We examined the interactive influence of specific demographic and diagnostic variables on Benton Visual Retention Test (BVRT) performance in three commonly presenting groups of older adults. Cross-sectional data from three archival samples were utilized: "normals" (n=156), "normals with memory concerns" (n=435), and a "mixed neurologic" group (n=196). In both normal groups, as well as in a "no/low deficit" neurologic subgroup, we confirmed that the higher one's age, the lower their BVRT accuracy, while the higher one's level of education, the greater their BVRT accuracy (at least through age 84). For normal subjects, gender had no impact on BVRT performance. Variability in BVRT performance increased consistently, but not significantly, through age 85.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA. ellen.coman@med.va.gov
Ellen
E
Coman
James A
JA
Moses
Helena Chmura
HC
Kraemer
Leah
L
Friedman
Arthur L
AL
Benton
Jerome
J
Yesavage