A web-based normative data tool for assessing cognitive performance in healthy older Australians
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McBride, Simon J., Szoeke, Cassandra E. I., Good, Norm M., Ames, David, Martins, Ralph N., Masters, Colin L., Maruff, Paul Thomas, Rowe, Christopher C., Savage, Greg and Ellis, Kathryn A.. (2011). A web-based normative data tool for assessing cognitive performance in healthy older Australians. Medical Journal of Australia.
Authors | McBride, Simon J., Szoeke, Cassandra E. I., Good, Norm M., Ames, David, Martins, Ralph N., Masters, Colin L., Maruff, Paul Thomas, Rowe, Christopher C., Savage, Greg and Ellis, Kathryn A. |
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Abstract | • A decline in cognition greater than expected with ageing and accompanied by subjective cognitive concerns or functional changes may be indicative of a dementing disorder. • The capacity to correctly identify cognitive decline relies on comparisons with normative data from a suitably matched healthy reference group with relatively homogeneous demographic features. • Formal assessment of cognition is usually performed by specialist neuropsychologists trained in administration and interpretation of psychometric tests. With a scarcity of normative data from large cohorts of older adults, Australian neuropsychologists commonly use representative data from small international studies. • Data from 727 healthy older Australians participating in the Australian Imaging, Biomarkers and Lifestyle (AIBL) Flagship Study of Ageing have been used to create a normative dataset. • A web-based calculator was developed to simplify the time-consuming process of comparing cognitive performance scores with these representative data. |
Year | 2011 |
Journal | Medical Journal of Australia |
Publisher | Australasian Medical Publishing Company Pty Ltd. |
Web address (URL) | https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2011/194/4/web-based-normative-data-tool-assessing-cognitive-performance-healthy-older |
Research Group | Institute for Health and Ageing |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Controlled |
Place of publication | Australia |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/86328/a-web-based-normative-data-tool-for-assessing-cognitive-performance-in-healthy-older-australians
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