Pachana, Nancy Nancy Pachana, PhD, is a clinical neuropsychologist specializing in geropsychology. She is a Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of Clinical Training Program at The University of Queensland (St Lucia QLD 4072, Australia).
Thompson, Larry W. Larry W. Thompson, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus in the Division of Endocrinology, Gerontology & Metabolism at Stanford University School of Medicine. His research interests include psychosocial treatment for individuals with bipolar disorder and/or other serious mental illnesses; cognitive/behavioral therapy for late-life depression; and intervention research with culturally diverse individuals with depression.
Features of the COAST
Purpose: Use a Stroop-type test designed specifically for older adults.
Length: 50 cards
Average completion time: 15 minutes
Target population: Age 60 and over
Administration: For individual administration
Extra materials needed: Stopwatch
Comparison norms: Normative data for the COAST is provided for healthy older adults, as well as those with type-II diabetes (representing norms for older adults with a chronic medical condition), depressed outpatients, psychiatric inpatients and persons with dementia.
Uses of the COAST
- Assessment of older adults with a question of dementia
- Evaluating older adults with head injury or other medical, psychiatric or neurological conditions which may be interfering with cognitive functioning
- Assessment of older individuals with depression
- Research instrument to investigate executive functioning in older populations
Scales
The COAST allows computation of time to completion for the familiar three traditional Stroop-type tasks (Color Naming, Word Naming and Inference) with normative data for time to completion of each trial, in addition to self-corrected and total errors for each individual trial. Scoring is quick and easy.
Color Naming
Word Naming
Inference Trial
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