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- Title
- Validation study of the Italian Addenbrooke's cognitive examination revised in a young-old and old-old population
- Related
- Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders, Vol. 32, Issue 5, (2011), p.301-307
- DOI
- 10.1159/000334657
- Publisher
- S. Karger AG
- Date
- 2011
- Author/Creator
- Pigliautile, M
- Author/Creator
- Ricci, Monica
- Author/Creator
- Mioshi, E
- Author/Creator
- Ercolani, S
- Author/Creator
- Mangialasche, F
- Author/Creator
- Monastero, R
- Author/Creator
- Croce, M. F
- Author/Creator
- Federici, S
- Author/Creator
- Mecocci, P
- Description
- Aims: The main aims of the study were the translation and the subsequent validation in Italian of the Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination Revised (ACE-R), and the evaluation of its usefulness in discriminating cognitively normal subjects from patients with mild dementia in an elderly population. Methods: The ACE-R was translated and adapted into Italian. The Italian ACE-R was administered to a group of 179 elderly subjects (72 cognitively healthy and 107 subjects with mild dementia, mean age 75.4 ± 6.4 years). The group was stratified into two subsamples according to age, i.e. a young-old ( < 75 years) and an old-old ( ≥ 75 years) group, in order to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of the test in detecting dementia in different age strata of elderly subjects. Results: The reliability of the Italian ACE-R was extremely good ( alpha -coefficient = 0.85). Two different cutoffs were identified for young-old (cutoff 79; sensitivity 90% and specificity 80%) and old-old subjects (cutoff 60; sensitivity 82% and specificity 100%). Conclusions: The Italian ACE-R is a valid screening tool to detect dementia, especially in the old-old population, which represents not only the fastest growing age group but also the group at the highest risk of dementia in Western countries.
- Description
- 7 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- Addenbrooke's cognitive examination
- Subject Keyword
- Cognitive assessment
- Subject Keyword
- Dementia
- Subject Keyword
- Elderly
- Subject Keyword
- Old-old
- Subject Keyword
- Young-old
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/170421
- Identifier
- ISSN:1420-8008
- Identifier
- mq_res-ext-2-s2.0-84855867016
- Language
- eng
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