The Lawton Instrumental Activities Daily Living/Activities Daily Living Scales: A Sensitive Test to Alzheimer Disease in Community-Dwelling Elderly People?

Conclusion:
Our results suggest that the Lawton IADLs-4 item scale and ADLs scale lack sensitivity to AD dementia in elderly people and support a better sensitivity of MOCA rather than MMSE and IADLs-4 item/ADLs at the expense of specificity.

Source: Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology - May 12, 2014 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Koskas, P., Henry-Feugeas, M. C., Feugeas, J. P., Poissonnet, A., Pons-Peyneau, C., Wolmark, Y., Drunat, O. Tags: Articles Source Type: research