Dolores Gold

TL;DR: The clock drawing test was used in a longitudinal study of 183 dementing individuals and their caregivers as discussed by the authors, and the clock drawing performance was measured by a simple standardized score which correlated significantly with other measures of cognitive function.

TL;DR: This longitudinal study of 196 caregiver/care receiver dyads was undertaken to determine the variables predictive of caregiver decision to institutionalize a dependent with dementia.

TL;DR: Patient aggression predicted the decision to discontinue home care, and predictors of patient aggression were greater frequency of behavior and memory problems, premorbid aggression, and a more troubledPremorbid social relationship between patient and caregiver.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that off-target verbosity, defined as extended speech that is lacking in focus or coherence, is mediated by an age-related decline in the ability to inhibit task-irrelevant thoughts, was evaluated in a sample of 205 community-dwelling elderly volunteers, suggesting a possible frontal lobe involvement in off- target speech.

TL;DR: A large proportion of the age differences and virtually all of the social-class differences on memory measures could be accounted for by contextual variables, with education, intellectual activity, extroversion, neuroticism, and lie scores (on the Eysenck Personality Inventory) all accounting for more of the variance in memory performance than did age.