Abstract
AIMS: The main aims of the study were the translation and the subsequent validation in Italian of the Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination Revised (ACE-R), and the evaluation of its usefulness in discriminating cognitively normal subjects from patients with mild dementia in an elderly population.
METHODS: The ACE-R was translated and adapted into Italian. The Italian ACE-R was administered to a group of 179 elderly subjects (72 cognitively healthy and 107 subjects with mild dementia, mean age 75.4±6.4 years). The group was stratified into two subsamples according to age, i.e. a young-old (<75 years) and an old-old (≥75 years) group, in order to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of the test in detecting dementia in different age strata of elderly subjects.
RESULTS: The reliability of the Italian ACE-R was extremely good (α-coefficient=0.85). Two different cutoffs were identified for young-old (cutoff 79; sensitivity 90% and specificity 80%) and old-old subjects (cutoff 60; sensitivity 82% and specificity 100%).
CONCLUSIONS: The Italian ACE-R is a valid screening tool to detect dementia, especially in the old-old population, which represents not only the fastest growing age group but also the group at the highest risk of dementia in Western countries.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 301-307 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders |
Volume | 32 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Keywords
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Alzheimer Disease/diagnosis
- Cognitive Dysfunction/diagnosis
- Cross-Cultural Comparison
- Dementia/diagnosis
- Dementia, Vascular/diagnosis
- Female
- Frontotemporal Dementia/diagnosis
- Humans
- Italy
- Lewy Body Disease/diagnosis
- Male
- Mental Status Schedule/statistics & numerical data
- Neuropsychological Tests/statistics & numerical data
- Psychometrics/statistics & numerical data
- Reference Values
- Reproducibility of Results
- Translating