Publications by authors named "Bronwyn Massavelli"
Background: Declines in financial capacity in later life may arise from both neurocognitive and/or psychiatric disorders. The influence of socio-demographic, cognitive, health, and psychiatric variables on financial capacity performance was explored.
Methods: Seventy-six healthy community-dwelling adults and 25 older patients referred for assessment of financial capacity were assessed on pertinent cognitive, psychiatric, and financial capacity measures, including Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination - Revised (ACE-R), Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly (IQCODE), Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI), selected Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) items, Financial Competence Assessment Inventory (FCAI), and Social Vulnerability Scale (SVS).
This review aims to identify factors that facilitate the establishment of enduring powers of attorney (EPOAs), and those that create a barrier to their establishment. The primary aim was to provide guidance about how to encourage future planning while people are cognitively able to make such important decisions. A detailed search of the literature was conducted to identify research looking at the motivating factors behind putting future-planning strategies in place.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrimary Objective: The aim of this study was to determine whether a single measurement of level of PTA could distinguish patients more severely injured from those less so, by investigating the effect of PTA on psychometric test performance.
Methods And Procedures: Ninety patients with mTBI completed a word recall test, a spoken version of the Speed of Comprehension test and the Digit Symbol Substitution Test (Digit Symbol), within 24 hours of injury. These patients were divided into two groups, based on the presence (n=42) or absence (n=48) of PTA at the time of testing.