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Cognitive Test Performance in a Community-Based Nondemented Elderly Sample in Rural India: The Indo-U.S. Cross-National Dementia Epidemiology Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2005

Mary Ganguli ,
Vijay Chandra ,
Joanne E. Gilby ,
Graham Ratcliff ,
Sujatha D. Sharma ,
Rajesh Pandav ,
Eric C. Seaberg  and
Steven Belle
Mary Ganguli
Affiliation:
Division of Geriatrics and Neuropsychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Vijay Chandra
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Centre for Ageing Research, India, New Delhi, India
Joanne E. Gilby
Affiliation:
Division of Geriatrics and Neuropsychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Graham Ratcliff
Affiliation:
Division of Geriatrics and Neuropsychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Harmarville Rehabilitation Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Sujatha D. Sharma
Affiliation:
Centre for Ageing Research, India, New Delhi, India
Rajesh Pandav
Affiliation:
Centre for Ageing Research, India, New Delhi, India
Eric C. Seaberg
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Steven Belle
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
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Abstract

Interpretation of cognitive test performance among individuals from a given population requires an understanding of cognitive norms in that population. Little is known about normative test performance among elderly illiterate non-English-speaking individuals. An age-stratified random sample of men and women, aged 55 years and older, was drawn from a community-based population in the rural area of Ballabgarh in northern India. These Hindi-speaking individuals had little or no education and were largely illiterate. A battery of neuropsychological tests, specially adapted from the CERAD neuropsychological battery, which was adminstered to this sample, is described. Subjects also underwent a protocol diagnostic examination for dementia. Norms for test performance of 374 nondemented subjects on these tests are reported across the sample and also by age, gender, and literacy.

Type
Studies on Cognition and Dementia
Information
International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , December 1996 , pp. 507 - 524
Copyright
© 1996 International Psychogeriatric Association

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