Development and implementation of Persian test of Elderly for Assessment of Cognition and Executive function (PEACE).
Journal Title: Electronic Physician - Year 2015, Vol 7, Issue 7
Abstract
A considerable segment of the elderly population in Iran is illiterate, and it seems the existing neuropsychological screening tests are not very useful for detecting dementia in illiterate participants. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a tool called Persian test of Elderly for Assessment of Cognition and Executive function (PEACE) for detecting dementia in both illiterate and literate participants.
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Pari Sadat Haji Seyed Javadi, Azadeh Zendehbad, Fatemeh Darabi, Shahrzad Khosravifar, Maryam Noroozian
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