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Psychological Methods for the Assessment of Performance and Emotionality in Elderly Patients

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A broad repertoire of measures have been developed in psychology for measuring performance and, to a lesser degree, emotionality. In order to evaluate the usefulness of these in gerontology it is helpful to consider their respective goals.

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Janke, W., Hüppe, M. (1989). Psychological Methods for the Assessment of Performance and Emotionality in Elderly Patients. In: Bergener, M., Reisberg, B. (eds) Diagnosis and Treatment of Senile Dementia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46658-8_13

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