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Diogenes Syndrome: a five-year follow-up

✍ Scribed by Kevin W. Greve; Kelly L. Curtis; Kevin J. Bianchini

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Weight: 51 KB
Volume: 22
Category: Article
ISSN: 0885-6230
DOI: 10.1002/gps.1835

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✦ Synopsis

In a Letter to the Editor 'Informant based measures may overestimate cognitive impairment in elderly patients', Diesfeldt states that: (1) informant based measures may overestimate cognitive impairment in older adults, and (2) direct assessment of cognitive abilities may be preferred to informant based measures (Diesfeldt, 2007).

We agree with Diesfeldt that informant based measures may overestimate cognitive impairment in elderly people. In a screening among 3,449 community-dwelling older general practice patients, as was the case in our study (Jansen et al.

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