DMR Manual

• Early detection of dementia in adults with intellectual disabilities
• Specifically developed for adults with mild, moderate and severe intellectual disabilities
• Recently positively rated by the Committee On Test Affairs Netherlands (COTAN):

Doel
Early detection of dementia in adults with intellectual disabilities.

Doelgroep
Developmental ages around 2-10 years

Beschrijving
Dementia is hard to determine in people with intellectual disabilities. With the DMR it is possible to trace dementia in an early stage. The items are comparable to questions which an expert diagnostician would ask the carers. They are primarily based on international guidelines for dementia diagnosis. The DMR, an informant-based questionnaire, consists of 50 items and eight subscales: Short-term memory, Long-term memory, Orientation, Speech, Practical Skills
Prices, Mood, Activity and Interest and Behavioural Disturbance.

 Afname
Pencil and paper. The administration time is between 15 and 20 minutes.

Scoring
The questionnaire is provided with a simple linear score system in which the items have three response categories: 0 = no deficit, 1 point = moderate deficit, 2 points = severe deficit. Combined scores on the first three subscales (Short-term memory, Long-term memory and Orientation) are indicated as the Sum of Cognitive Scores (SCS). Combined scores on subscales 4 trough 8 (Speech, Practical skills, Mood, Activity and interest, and Behavioural disturbance) as the Sum of Social Scores (SOS). It is advised to routinely perform a first scoring f the DMR before any functional deterioration is observed, because longitudinal judgement of DMR scores provides the most reliable diagnosis.

Jaar van uitgave
2006