PMID- 15683978
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20050215
LR  - 20061115
IS  - 1760-1703 (Print)
IS  - 1760-1703 (Linking)
VI  - 2
IP  - 2
DP  - 2004 Jun
TI  - [Planning and activities of daily living in Alzheimer's disease and 
      frontotemporal dementia].
PG  - 147-56
AB  - OBJECTIVE: To study the relationship between the disturbances in activities of 
      daily living and the scores on tests assessing planning activities in 
      frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS: Eleven 
      patients with FTD were compared to 11 patients with AD and 29 healthy controls. 
      Cognitive status, evaluated by the Dementia Rating Scale (DRS) and the Mini 
      Mental State Examination (MMSE) was identical in the two groups of patients. 
      Activities of daily living were assessed by three questionnaires completed by the 
      main caregiver: (1) the Cognitive Difficulties Scale (CDS); (2) the NADL, a 
      composite scale including the Physical self-maintenance scale (ADL) the 
      Instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) the social activities scale, 
      (SADL); (3) the Dysexecutive Questionnaire (DEX) from the Behavioural Assessment 
      of the Dysexecutive Syndrome. Planning abilities were assessed by the tower of 
      London and three tests from the BADS: the key search, the zoo map and the six 
      elements. RESULTS: No quantitative differences were found between FTD and AD 
      patients in daily living activities disturbances or scores on planning tests. 
      Both were closely related to the global cognitive performance assessed by the DRS 
      or the MMSE but no clear relationship was found between them. The scores on the 
      tower of London were not correlated to those on the tests from the BADS. 
      CONCLUSION: Neither assessment of activities of daily living or scores on the 
      planning tests could differentiate FTD from AD. Planning appears as a 
      multidimensional construct poorly assessed by the usual assessment tools.
FAU - Piquard, Ambre
AU  - Piquard A
AD  - Federation de neurologie Mazarin, Paris. piquard.ambre@wanadoo.fr
FAU - Derouesne, Christian
AU  - Derouesne C
FAU - Lacomblez, Lucette
AU  - Lacomblez L
FAU - Sieroff, Eric
AU  - Sieroff E
LA  - fre
PT  - Clinical Trial
PT  - English Abstract
PT  - Journal Article
TT  - Planification et activites de la vie quotidienne dans la maladie d'Alzheimer et 
      les degenerescences frontotemporales.
PL  - France
TA  - Psychol Neuropsychiatr Vieil
JT  - Psychologie & neuropsychiatrie du vieillissement
JID - 101203421
SB  - IM
MH  - *Activities of Daily Living
MH  - Aged
MH  - Alzheimer Disease/*diagnosis/psychology
MH  - Caregivers
MH  - Cognition
MH  - Dementia/*diagnosis/psychology
MH  - Diagnosis, Differential
MH  - Female
MH  - Frontal Lobe/pathology
MH  - Goals
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - *Mental Status Schedule
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Sensitivity and Specificity
MH  - Temporal Lobe/pathology
EDAT- 2005/02/03 09:00
MHDA- 2005/02/16 09:00
CRDT- 2005/02/03 09:00
PHST- 2005/02/03 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2005/02/16 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2005/02/03 09:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Psychol Neuropsychiatr Vieil. 2004 Jun;2(2):147-56.