Temporal Disorientation Base Rates in Alzheimers Disease and Parkinsons Disease
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Temporal Disorientation Base Rates in Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease
Base rates of impairment on the Temporal Orientation Scale (TOS; Benton et al.,) were reported for normal elderly (n=210) and patients with either Alzheimer’s disease (AD; n=112) or Parkinson’s disease (PD; n=189). The study hypothesis was that disorientation would be more frequent in ADs than in controls and PDs. Base rates for controls, PDs, and ADs were 1.00%, 22.22%, and 78.60% when disorie...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Gerontology & Geriatric Research
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2167-7182
DOI: 10.4172/2167-7182.1000221