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A study to examine the relationship of the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS) to other tests of cognition and function
- Authors:
- ROBINSON Susanna E., FISHER Anne G.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 59(6), June 1996, pp.260-263.
- Publisher:
- Sage
In this study, the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills AMPS, observational assessment of functional ability, was compared with other tests of function and cognition, namely the Functional Independence Measure FIM, the CAMCOG (the cognitive component of the CAMDEX Cambridge Examination for Mental Status in the Elderly) and the Mini-Mental State Examination MMSE. The subjects were people with diagnosed dementia or mild memory impairment. The results were as expected, revealing significant relationships between AMPS process ability and the CAMCOG, the MMSE and the FIM social/cognition scale, and between AMPS motor ability and the FIM physical scale. This supported the validity of the AMPS as an evaluation of the interaction between cognitive impairments and disability in complex activities of daily living.
Impaired judgment: a useful symptom of dementia?
- Authors:
- HEAD L., BERRIOS G.E.
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 11(9), September 1996, pp.779-785.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
'Impaired judgment' remains a diagnostic (and predictive) criterion for delirium, dementia and substance-related disorders, and yet its diagnosis and measurement are hampered by the absence of an operational definition. Most of the important research into judgment as a psychological function has been carried out in development and industrial psychology, in the experimental analysis of perception, medical diagnosis and legal decision-making. Models generated in these fields, although important, are only tangentially relevant to 'impaired judgment' as it is met with in clinical practice. This article explores some models of judgment and their application to dementia. It concludes that judgment is not a unitary function but a composite of subroutines. Hence, both low-and high-level analyses are required: the former to explore aetiology, differential diagnosis and treatment, the latter for the assessment of psychosocial competence. A model for the understanding of judgment is also suggested.
Memory maintenance groups in the community
- Author:
- GREGORY Susan
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 59(1), January 1996, pp.25-26.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Describes the use of memory maintenance groups for people in the early stages of dementia who are living at home. The aims of the groups changed to meet client need.