MEDICAL Directors are all very familiar with the purpose and operations of the MIB Medical Impairment Search and Retrieval System, which is utilized by virtually every major company issuing life, health, and disability insurance in the United States and Canada. However, not as much is known about the MIB Center for Medico-Actuarial Statistics, commonly known as CMAS, where most of the insurance...

BACKGROUND This study describes the validation of a new instrument measuring instrumental activities of daily living (IADL), the Amsterdam IADL Questionnaire© (a registered copyright of the Alzheimer Center of the VU University Medical Center). This informant-based tool aimed at detecting IADL problems in incipient dementia was previously found to have a high internal consistency and test-retes...

OBJECTIVE The identification and documentation of subclinical gait impairments in older adults may facilitate the appropriate use of interventions for preventing or delaying mobility disability. We tested whether measures derived from a single body-fixed sensor worn during traditional Timed Up and Go (TUG) testing could identify subclinical gait impairments in community dwelling older adults wi...

conclusions this study has provided some preliminary evidence of the reliability and validity of the persian version of rcas when used with family caregivers of older adults with dementia. background caregivers’ self-assessments of the care they provide are the main vehicles that help explore their experiences and are thought to have a major role in care outcomes. the rising number of people wi...

No Brazilian version of a specific scale for evaluating apathy in dementia is available. Objectives To introduce a translated version of the Apathy Scale (AS) for use with caregivers. Methods The instrument was formally translated and then administered to the caregivers of a small sample of dementia patients, in order to assess scale comprehensibility and make final adjustments. The scale w...

The aim of this study was to determine reliability and validity of the Spanish version of the Disability Assessment for Dementia Scale (DAD-E) in the following areas: content, response process, internal structure, and relation to other constructs.We designed a cross-sectional observational study. The DAD-E was administered to 132 participants diagnosed with mild cognitive decline, prodromal Alz...

BACKGROUND Patients with Alzheimer's disease experience a progressive loss of cognitive function, and the ability to independently perform activities of daily life. Sometimes a dependent stage is reached quite early in the disease, when caregivers decide that the patients can no longer be left alone safely. This is an important aspect of Alzheimer's for patients, their families, and also health...

UNLABELLED The objective of this research was to assess the occurrence of cognitive impairment in 32 individuals (average age: 67.2 years old) with Parkinson' disease (PD). PROCEDURES clinical-neurological assessment; modified Hoehn and Yahr staging scale (HYS); standard neuropsychological battery of CERAD (Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer' Disease); Pfeffer questionnaire; and...

This paper presents some experimental results on the performance of real-time mobile communication in an IPv6 testbed. For real-time multimedia communication, we adopt Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) as signaling protocol and Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) to support seamless connectivity. While performance measurement of real-time mobile communication consists of several factors, we focus here on the h...