Alzheimer Disease
New Alzheimer disease research from D.A. Loewenstein and colleagues discussed
Published in Nursing Home and Elder Business Week, August 9th, 2009
"This study evaluated the utility of the Florida Brief Memory Screen (FBMS), a new memory screening measure developed for Spanish-speaking and English-speaking subjects, which takes only 3-4 minutes to administer. The FBMS was administered to 25 patients with probable Alzheimer disease, 23 patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment, and 80 cognitively normal elderly," scientists writing in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry report.
"The FBMS evidenced good test-retest reliability and high correlation with standard measures of memory. In receiver operating characteristic analyses, the FBMS correctly classified 100% of patients with probable...
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