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A Guide to the Neuropsychological Assessment of the Aging Individual

An Assessment Guide to Geriatric Neuropsychology, by Holly Tuokko and Thomas Hadjistavropoulos. 1998. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 282 pp., $79.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 1999

Paul J. Moberg
Affiliation:
Brain-Behavior Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Abstract

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Most clinical neuropsychologists find themselves, at one time or another, foraging through their collection of folders, boxes, and texts to locate reliability, validity, and normative data for some of the more commonly used neuropsychological tests in an elderly population. In their forward, Tuokko and Hadjistavropoulos indicate that this book is designed to compile the range of normative data on the more commonly used neuropsychological tests into one source that can be easily accessed and integrated by the clinician. In addition to presentation of normative data relating to the geriatric population, a critique of each instrument's standardization and normative data is presented as well. While not all-inclusive of measures used by the typical neuropsychologist, it does cover the majority of tasks for which good normative data on the elderly exist.

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© 1999 The International Neuropsychological Society