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Normative data for a brief neuropsychological battery administered to English- and Spanish-speaking community-dwelling elders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 1998

LAURIE STRICKS
Affiliation:
Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, and the Taub Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, USA
JOHN PITTMAN
Affiliation:
Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, and the Taub Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, USA
DIANE M. JACOBS
Affiliation:
Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, and the Taub Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, USA
MARY SANO
Affiliation:
Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, and the Taub Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, USA
YAAKOV STERN
Affiliation:
Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, and the Taub Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, USA

Abstract

The use of neuropsychological tests in non-English-speaking populations and among those with less education has been limited because most tests have been standardized for English-speaking populations with relatively high levels of education. In effort to establish norms, a battery of neuropsychological tests was administered, in either English or Spanish, to 995 normal elders with a wide range of educational attainment, residing in the community of Washington Heights–Inwood in northern Manhattan. Results indicate that age, education, and language all influence test performance and should be considered when evaluating neuropsychological measures. (JINS, 1998, 4, 311–318.)

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1998 The International Neuropsychological Society

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