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Use of translated versions of the MMSE with South Asian elderly patients in the UK

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Rashda Tabassum  and
Syed Hasan Jawed
Rashda Tabassum
Affiliation:
Old Age Psychiatry, Bloxwich Hospital, Walsall, UK, email Rashda.Tabassum@dwmh.nhs.uk
Syed Hasan Jawed
Affiliation:
Dorothy Pattison Hospital, Walsall, UK
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The elderly population is increasing all over the world, a trend expected to continue well into the next century, particularly in low-income countries (Levkoff et al, 1995). There is an established association between increasing age and cognitive decline (Fillenbaum, 1984) and dementias are common in this age group.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , April 2010 , pp. 45 - 47
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