Evaluating Residual Cognition in Advanced Cognitive Impairment: The Residual Cognition Assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In nursing homes, most of the patients with dementia are affected by severe cognitive disorder. Care interventions follow an accurate and recurring multidimensional assessment, including cognitive status. There is still a need to develop new performance-based scales for moderate-to-advanced dementia.

Objectives

The development of the Residual Cognition Assessment (RCA) responds to the need to create new scales for global cognitive screening in advanced dementia, with some peculiar features: performance based, brief (<5 m), available without specific training, and suitable for nonverbal patients with minimal distress.

Methods

Two raters have administered the RCA and the Severe Impairment Battery-short version (SIB-S) to 84 participants with MMSE = 0. After 2

SUBMITTER: Soli A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8820420 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature