The Global Deterioration Scale for assessment of primary degenerative dementia. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Cognitive decline associated with old age and consistent with the diagnosis of primary degenerative dementia is a unique clinical syndrome with characteristic phenomena and progression. The authors describe a Global Deterioration Scale for the assessment of primary degenerative dementia and delineation of its stages. The authors have used the Global Deterioration Scale successfully for more than 5 years and have validated it against behavioral, neuroanatomic, and neurophysiologic measures in patients with primary degenerative dementia.

publication date

  • September 1, 1982

Research

keywords

  • Alzheimer Disease
  • Dementia
  • Psychiatric Status Rating Scales

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0019967975

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1176/ajp.139.9.1136

PubMed ID

  • 7114305

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 139

issue

  • 9