Cognitive Performance in Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type: The Kitchen Task Assessment

Abstract

The Kitchen Task Assessment (KTA) is a functional measure that records the level of cognitive support required by a person with Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type (SDAT) to complete a cooking task successfully. The results allow the clinician to help caregivers understand the level of support the impaired person needs to perform daily living tasks. This paper presents the validity and internal consistency of the KTA. Data were collected from 106 persons diagnosed with SDAT. Construct validity was established by examining the relationship between subjects' performance on the KTA and standard neuropsychological measures.

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“…These tests offer additional information to the one given by cognitive tests, because even if a patient has achieved quite encouraging results, he may have problems integrating visual, motor and cognitive skills, making him perform poorly in ADLs. Often, the real state of the dementia can be better assessed and the level of support needed can be much better understood seeing them in action and recording the level of cognitive support required to complete a certain task successfully [236]. Hence, ADLs can be assessed both by means of questionnaires and by specifically designed tasks.…”

“…Among the specific tasks that allow to evaluate the abilities of the patient in vivo, the most well known is probably the kitchen task assessment [236]. It is a functional measure that aims to evaluate the processing skills of initiation, organization, inclusion of all steps, sequencing, safety and judgement, and completion of a cooking task for measuring the cognitive aspects of performance by means of behaviour.…”

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“…Iako ove procjene identificiraju kognitivne deficite i teškoće u izvedbi aktivnosti, nemaju razvijen sustav bilježenja sposobnosti pojedinca uz progresivne razine neverbalnog ili verbalnog poticanja ili navođenja pri izvedbi zadatka 34 . Primjerice, takav sustav navođe-nja koji obuhvaća širi opseg sposobnosti sadrži Procjena zadatka u kuhinji (Kitchen Task Assessment, KTA 35 ). Navedena procjena kroz jednostavnu aktivnost kuhanja pruža uvid u klijentove sposobnosti započinjanja, organizacije i završavanja aktivnosti, sekvencioniranja te sigurnosti.…”

“…Navedena procjena kroz jednostavnu aktivnost kuhanja pruža uvid u klijentove sposobnosti započinjanja, organizacije i završavanja aktivnosti, sekvencioniranja te sigurnosti. Međutim, s obzirom na kompleksnost izvršnih procesa, primarni nedostatak ove procjene sastoji se u procjeni klijentove izvedbe na samo jednom zadatku 35 . Literatura posljednjeg desetljeća podupire navode da su procjene izvršnih procesa najučinkovitije u stvarnim svakodnevnim zadacima i realnoj okolini 25,36 jer omogućuju bolje razumijevanje utjecaja okolinskih čimbenika na izvedbu 25 .…”

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“…Hence the system must provide models to describe: what to do how to do it and when to do it. The Kitchen Task Assessment is the starting point for the first prototype [1]. The testbed ADL used is the preparation of a meal.…”