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General assessment instruments

  • Crighton Royal Behaviour Rating Scale[1]
  • Clifton Assessment Procedures for the Elderly[2]
  • Geriatric Mental Health State Schedule[4]


  • Assessment of dementia in older adults

See also

References & Bibliography

  1. Wilkin, D; Jolley D (1979). Behavioural problems among older people in geriatric wards, psychogeriatric wards and residential homes 1976-1978, University Hospital of South Manchester..
  2. Pattie, A; Gilleard C (1979). Manual of the Clifton assessment procedures for the elderly, Essex: Hodder and Stoughton..
  3. Goldberg, D (1972). The detection of psychiatric illness by questionnaire: a technique for the identification and assessment of non-psychotic psychiatric illness, Oxford: OUP. ISBN 0-19-712143-8.
  4. Copeland, J, Kelleher M. & Keller J (1976). A semistructured clinical interview for the assessment of diagnosis and mental state in the elderly: the geriatric mental state schedule – 1 development and reliability. Psychological Medicine 6: 439-449.

Key texts

Books

Department of Health (2002) Guidance on the single assessment process for older people; HSC 2002/001, LAC (2002)1, London: HMSO.

Papers

Additional material

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