Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly.
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- What it measures
- Informant-rated change in everyday cognitive functioning over ~10 years (memory, learning, handling money/everyday tasks)
- Length and format
- 26 (long form); 16 (short form). informant 5-point change ratings (much improved ... much worse) (informant/observer report)
- Language versions
- Many incl. ES, ZH, FR, IT, JA, KO, NO, PL, PT, DE, NL, DA, FI, FA, TH
- Normative data
- Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.
- Licence
- public-domain / open
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- Reference
- Jorm AF, Korten AE. Br J Psychiatry. 1988;152:209-213. Free versions at crahw.anu.edu.au.
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