Evaluating Voting Competence in Persons with Alzheimer Disease
Joint Authors
Stefanini, Stefano
Tiraboschi, Pietro
Sacco, Leonardo
Chitò, Erica
Defanti, Carlo Alberto
Sala, Marta
Source
International Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
Issue
Vol. 2011, Issue 2011 (31 Dec. 2011), pp.1-6, 6 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2011-07-14
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
6
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Voting by persons with dementia raises questions about their decision-making capacity.
Methods specifically addressing voting capacity of demented people have been proposed in the US, but never tested elsewhere.
We translated and adapted the US Competence Assessment Tool for Voting (CAT-V) to the Italian context, using it before 2006 elections for Prime Minister.
Consisting of a brief questionnaire, this tool evaluates the following decision-making abilities: understanding nature and effect of voting, expressing a choice, and reasoning about voting choices.
Subjects' performance was examined in relation to dementia severity.
Of 38 subjects with Alzheimer's disease (AD) enrolled in the study, only three scored the maximum on all CAT-V items.
MMSE and CAT-V scores correlated only moderately (r=0.59; P<0.0001) with one another, reflecting the variability of subjects' performance at any disease stage.
Most participants (90%), although performing poorly on understanding and reasoning items, scored the maximum on the choice measure.
Our results imply that voting capacity in AD is only roughly predicted by MMSE scores and may more accurately be measured by a structured questionnaire, such as the CAT-V.
Among the decision-making abilities evaluated by the CAT-V, expressing a choice was by far the least affected by the dementing process.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Tiraboschi, Pietro& Chitò, Erica& Sacco, Leonardo& Sala, Marta& Stefanini, Stefano& Defanti, Carlo Alberto. 2011. Evaluating Voting Competence in Persons with Alzheimer Disease. International Journal of Alzheimer's Disease،Vol. 2011, no. 2011, pp.1-6.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Tiraboschi, Pietro…[et al.]. Evaluating Voting Competence in Persons with Alzheimer Disease. International Journal of Alzheimer's Disease No. 2011 (2011), pp.1-6.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Tiraboschi, Pietro& Chitò, Erica& Sacco, Leonardo& Sala, Marta& Stefanini, Stefano& Defanti, Carlo Alberto. Evaluating Voting Competence in Persons with Alzheimer Disease. International Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. 2011. Vol. 2011, no. 2011, pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-513532
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-513532