CASE™

Clinical Assessment Scales for the Elderly™

Purpose: Comprehensively measures acute psychopathology in the elderly

Format: Paper and pencil, E-Manual

Age range: 55 years to 90 years

Time: 20–40 minutes; 10 minutes to score

DETAILS:

The CASE is designed to assist the clinician in the diagnosis of DSM-IV™ Axis I clinical disorders in individuals from ages 55 to 90 years. The CASE consists of a self-rating form (Form S) and an other-rating form (Form R) that can be completed by a knowledgeable caregiver (e.g., spouse, child, home health care worker, sibling). Form R is especially useful to verify the information provided by the patient or when the patient is unable to complete the assessment due to physical or cognitive difficulties.

Features and Benefits

• Developed specifically to assess for the most prominent DSM-IV disorders among the elderly.

• Normed on a U.S. Census-matched sample of 2,000 adults, ages 55-90 years.

• Consists of 10 clinical scales: Anxiety (ANX), Cognitive Competence (COG), Depression (DEP), Fear of Aging (FOA), Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD), Paranoia (PAR), Psychoticism (PSY), Somatization (SOM), Mania (MAN), and Substance Abuse (SUB).

• Includes a valuable Fear of Aging scale that assesses an individual's level of apprehension about the aging process.

• CASE items are free of gender or ethnic bias.

• Contains three validity scales especially useful to identify feigning and for forensic assessments.