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Evaluating Voting Competence in Persons with Alzheimer Disease
| العنوان: | Evaluating Voting Competence in Persons with Alzheimer Disease |
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| المؤلفون: | Pietro Tiraboschi, Erica Chitò, Leonardo Sacco, Marta Sala, Stefano Stefanini, Carlo Alberto Defanti |
| المصدر: | International Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, Vol 2011 (2011) |
| بيانات النشر: | Wiley, 2011. |
| سنة النشر: | 2011 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry LCC:Geriatrics |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, RC321-571, Geriatrics, RC952-954.6 |
| الوصف: | Voting by persons with dementia raises questions about their decision-making capacity. Methods specifically addressing voting capacity of demented people have been proposed in the US, but never tested elsewhere. We translated and adapted the US Competence Assessment Tool for Voting (CAT-V) to the Italian context, using it before 2006 elections for Prime Minister. Consisting of a brief questionnaire, this tool evaluates the following decision-making abilities: understanding nature and effect of voting, expressing a choice, and reasoning about voting choices. Subjects' performance was examined in relation to dementia severity. Of 38 subjects with Alzheimer's disease (AD) enrolled in the study, only three scored the maximum on all CAT-V items. MMSE and CAT-V scores correlated only moderately (𝑟=0.59; 𝑃 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2090-0252 |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/2090-0252 |
| DOI: | 10.4061/2011/983895 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/e5f11721a4104ea9a74800154ae44b9e |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.5f11721a4104ea9a74800154ae44b9e |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 20900252 |
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| DOI: | 10.4061/2011/983895 |