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Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD)

  • Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI)
    Purpose:  To assess psychopathology in the person with dementia and to help distinguish between the different causes of dementia.
    Admin time:  10-20 min
    User Friendly:  High
    Administered by:  Clinicians to informant caregivers.
    Most Appropriate:  Acute, Primary, Community and Residential Care. Includes symptoms known to be rare in Alzheimer’s disease, but are characteristic of fronto-temporal dementias. It also assesses the level of caregiver distress engendered by each of the neuropsychiatric disorders.
    NPI has a nursing home version enabling care staff to act as the informant, rather than obtaining the information from the informal carer of a community dwelling person with cognitive impairment.
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    For potentially related measures of aggression, agitation, and apathy please review the Individual Symptoms of Dementia
     
  • Behavioural Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease (BEHAVE-AD)
    Purpose: To measure behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia in persons with Alzheimer’s disease.
    Admin time:  20 min
    User Friendly:  High
    Administered by: Clinical rating scale based on the interview of the informant (though it has been used in self-complete form by a suitable informant).
    Most Appropriate:     Acute, Primary, Community, and Residential Care. Measurement of BPAD including change as the result of interventions.
    Downloads: For potentially related measures of aggression, agitation, and apathy please review the Individual Symptoms of Dementia
     
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