Documenting Dementia Using Assessment Tools
- Focuses on the purpose of geriatric assessment tools
- Discusses the types of geriatric assessment tools
- Describes short cognitive tests for assessing mental health status
- Includes a variety of tests for behavioural and emotional assessment
This chapter explores the use of a variety of different geriatric assessment tools and discusses their purposes. It focuses particularly on assessment tools designed for emotional, mental and behavioural assessment.
Contents include
- Geriatric Assessment Tools
- Why Use Them At All?
- Types Of Geriatric Assessment Tools
- Assessing And Documenting Mental Function
- Mental Health Status Tools
- Short Cognitive Tests
- Behavioural Assessment
- Assessing And Documenting Emotional Health
- In Summary
- References
- Suggested Reading
Author / Editor Biographies
MBBS (London), D Obst RCOG (UK), MCRP (UK) and FAFRM.
John Hurley is a physician in geriatric and rehabilitation medicine at the Queen Elizabeth Centre in Ballarat, a provincial city in Australia. He is a past chairman of the Australian Geriatric Society's Victorian branch and his committee memberships have included: Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and Orthotics to the Health Commission of Victoria, 1978; chairman of the Extended Care Working Party; Health Commission of Victoria, 1982; Small Rural Hospitals Task Force and Rural Health Advisory Committee to the Ministry of Health, 1994. John is currently a member of the Dementia Task Force and H...
