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The A-K-T ("Alters-Konzentrations-Test") a new psychometric test for geriatric patients
G Gatterer1, P Fischer, M Simanyi
1Psychological Service, Geriatric Hospital-Lainz, Vienna, Austria.
Functional Neurology
|July 1, 1989
Abstract:
The A-K-T is a newly developed concentration test for geriatric patients. First results in demented patients show the test to be a good indicator of severity of dementia. Since the method is non-verbal, it can be applied to aphatic patients too. But, comparing results of patients suffering either from dementia of Alzheimer's type, multi-infarct dementia or Parkinson's disease with dementia, we are not able to objectify specific deficits of a certain dementing disease.