Blessed‚ 1968
1. Inability to perform household tasks (1‚ ½‚ 0)
2. Inability to cope with small sums of money (1‚ ½‚ 0)
3. Inability to remember short list of items‚ e.g.‚ in shopping (1‚ ½‚ 0)
4. Inability to find way about indoors (1‚ ½‚ 0)
5. Inability to find way about familiar streets (1‚ ½‚ 0)
6. Inability to interpret surroundings (e.g. to recognize whether in hospital‚ or at home‚ to discriminate between patients‚ doctors and nurses‚ relatives and hospital staff‚ etc.) (1‚ ½‚ 0)
7. Inability to recall recent events (e.g. recent outings‚ visits of relatives or friends to hospital‚ etc.) (1‚ ½‚ 0) 8. Tendency to dwell in the past (1‚ ½‚ 0)
9. Eating:
Cleanly with proper utensils (0)
Messily with spoon only (2)
Simple solids‚ e.g. biscuits (2)
Has to be fed (3)
10.Dressing:
Unaided (0)
Occasionally misplaced buttons‚ etc (1)
Unable to dress (3)
11.Complete sphincter control:
Occasional wet beds (1)
Frequent wet beds (2)
Doubly incontinent (3)
No change (0)
13.Increased egocentricity (1)
14.Impairment of regard for feelings of others (1) 15.Coarsening of affect (1)
17.Hilarity in inappropriate situations (1)
18.Diminished emotional responsiveness (1)
19.Sexual misdemeanour (appearing de novo in old age) (1)
Interests retained (0) 20.Hobbies relinquished (1)
21.Diminished initiative or growing apathy (1)
Blessed‚ G.‚ Tomlinson‚ B.E.‚ & Roth‚ M. (1968). The association between quantitative measures of dementia and of senile change in the cerebral grey matter of elderly subjects. British Journal of Psychiatry‚ 1114‚ 797-811.
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