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Changing faces: the purpose and practice of assessing older adults with cognitive impairment
- Authors:
- KEADY J., BENDER M.P.
- Journal article citation:
- Health Care in Later Life, 3(2), 1998, pp.129-144.
This article suggests that the consensus view of psychometric assessment in mental health settings as a relatively bland, benevolent activity is misguided in a number of important aspects. Rather than being effectively neutral, it is suggested that the experience of assessment for older adults in fact arouses anxiety in the individual concerned. Highlights the need for improvement including: a greater questioning of the purpose of memory assessment by the professionals involved, and of its actual practice, in order to match the pace of assessment to that of the older person with cognitive impairment; a firmer grasp on the biographical context of the person's life history; and a sharing of control over the direction of the assessment.