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Behavioral Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease (BEHAVE-AD) Rating Scale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2005

Barry Reisberg ,
Stefanie R. Auer  and
Isabel M. Monteiro
Barry Reisberg
Affiliation:
Aging and Dementia Research Center, and the Zachary and Elizabeth M. Fisher Alzheimer's Disease Education and Resources Program at the New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Stefanie R. Auer
Affiliation:
Aging and Dementia Research Center, and the Zachary and Elizabeth M. Fisher Alzheimer's Disease Education and Resources Program at the New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Isabel M. Monteiro
Affiliation:
Aging and Dementia Research Center, and the Zachary and Elizabeth M. Fisher Alzheimer's Disease Education and Resources Program at the New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, U.S.A.
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Before the development of the Behavioral Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease (BEHAVE-AD) rating scale in 1987 by Reisberg and colleagues and its predecessor scale, the Symptoms of Psychosis in Alzheimer's Disease (SPAD) rating scale, in 1985 by Reisberg and Ferris, other scales were available for measuring behavioral disturbances and psychiatric disorders in patients with Alzheimer's disease. However, these scales generally mixed together cognitive disturbances with behavioral symptoms and sometimes included functional impairments as well. These predecessor scales also were not specifically designed to assess the types of behavioral problems seen in Alzheimer's disease. If a scale did address behavioral disturbances of dementia, it tended to be seriously underspecified in terms of the nature of behavioral disturbances.

Type
Theories Behind Scales and Measurements
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International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 8 , Issue S3 , May 1997 , pp. 301 - 308
Copyright
© 1996 International Psychogeriatric Association

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