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Koder, Deborah-Anne; Klahr, Amanda – Educational Gerontology, 2010
The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) is one of the most commonly used instruments to screen for cognitive deficits within the hospital setting. However training in how to administer this widely used tool is scarce with little, if any, formal training for nursing staff. Scores are also often misused with over reliance on results and cut-offs to…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Nurses, Dementia, Knowledge Level
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Asp, Elissa; Song, Xiaowei; Rockwood, Kenneth – Brain and Language, 2006
In a study of the discourse of 100 people with Alzheimer's disease treated for 12 months with donepezil, we observed that, as a group, they used a form of tag, described here as a self-referential tag (SRT), 14 times more frequently than did caregivers. Patients use SRTs to check propositions dependent on episodic memory as in I haven't seen the…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Patients, Geriatrics, Cognitive Tests