Development of an International Schedule for the Assessment and Staging of Care for Dementia

Abstract

The IDEAL schedule looks promising as tool for the clinical and social management of people with dementia globally, though further reliability and validity testing is needed.

The International Dementia Alliance Instrument for Feasible and Valid Staging of Individuals with Dementia by Informal Caregivers

“…The second correlation was higher than the first one mentioned above but with a difference of only 0.05, so the third hypothesis was not satisfied. Correlation between IDEAL‐P and CDR‐SB was very high ( r = 0.84, 95% CI = 0.73–0.90, n = 58), confirming the high correlation found earlier and supporting the construct validity of the original IDEAL‐P.…”

“…The sum scores of the IDEAL‐IC and the CDR‐SB show more overlap than expected because multiple items overlap on content, but the IDEAL‐IC still provides additional information on the care recipient's care needs on the individual items. In the article on the development of the IDEAL instrument, a high correlation with the CDR was found . The current study confirmed this with the CDR‐SB, supporting the validity of the original instrument.…”

“…The following hypotheses were established a priori: the correlation between the IDEAL‐IC and the IDEAL‐P is high to very high, and relative agreement (<5 points difference in score) should be greater than 75%; IDEAL‐IC scores correlate moderately to highly with CDR‐SB scores; correlation between the IDEAL‐IC and IDEAL‐P is higher than correlation between the IDEAL‐IC and the CDR‐SB, with a difference of at least 0.1; and correlation between the IDEAL‐P and the CDR‐SB is very high and should reproduce the correlation found in the original article on the development of the IDEAL‐P . All formulated hypotheses were expected to have a positive direction.…”

“…The International Dementia Alliance (IDEAL) study group recently developed the professionally directed IDEAL staging instrument . An important advantage of this instrument for professionals is that it focuses on the individual with his or her context as a whole, taking into account informal and formal care needs.…”

Reliability and validity of the Spanish version of the IDEAL Schedule for assessing care needs in dementia: Cross‐sectional, multicenter study

“…It was in this setting that the IDEAL group decided to develop an easy‐to‐use, staging instrument that could be applied to guide the clinical and social care of patients . The IDEAL schedule fulfilled face and content validity criteria, had high inter‐rater reliability, and also satisfied preliminary evidence of concurrent validity against the CDR.…”