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      Bayer-Activities of Daily Living Scale in Mild and Moderate Dementia of the Alzheimer Type

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      American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease & Other Dementiasr
      SAGE Publications

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          The Bayer Activities of Daily Living Scale (B-ADL)

          The Bayer Activities of Daily Living Scale (B-ADL) has been developed on an international basis to assess deficits in the performance of everyday activities. The scale’s main target group is community dwelling patients who suffer mild cognitive impairment or mild-to-moderate dementia. It comprises 25 items and takes the form of a questionnaire to be completed by a caregiver or other informant sufficiently familiar with the patient. Statistical, clinical and domain-related criteria were used to select items from among a large number of activities of daily living (ADL) questions field tested in pilot studies in the USA, Germany, UK, Russia and Greece. The items included in the B-ADL have been chosen for their sensitivity to cognitive impairment, simplicity of concept, international applicability and their relevance to patients coping with the demands of everyday life. The scale uses items which reflect a wide range of domains. On account of its brevity, it is thought especially suitable for application within a GP and primary care context for both screening a patient’s ADL capacities as well as for documentation of treatment effects and the progress of dementia. This paper focuses on a description of the scale and its application.
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            Functional Assessment Staging (FAST) in Alzheimer's Disease: Reliability, Validity, and Ordinality

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              Assessment of cognitive decline in the elderly by informant interview.

              Cognitive decline in a sample of 64 elderly people was assessed by a standardised informant interview dealing with changes in memory and intelligence which had taken place in the previous 10 years. Scores from the interview were found to correlate (r = 0.74) with the Mini-Mental State Examination. Moreover, the informant interview was found to be less affected by pre-morbid ability than the MMSE. Direct assessment of decline by informants may be a solution to the problem of contamination by pre-morbid ability which affects traditional cognitive screening instruments.
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                Journal
                American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease & Other Dementiasr
                Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen
                SAGE Publications
                1533-3175
                1938-2731
                December 20 2013
                September 04 2013
                : 28
                : 8
                : 784-789
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                10.1177/1533317513500842
                a3711fc7-9f0e-4da0-9e58-4f5c0f8102cf
                © 2013

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