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higher for the Dutch sample than for the Japanese. As the age and education categories of the
Japanese and present study do not correspond, no conclusions may be drawn fromthis difference.
Administration of the RCPM in a representative sample of older adults by lay interviewers
appeared to offer no special problems. A small proportion of respondents did not participate
due to lack of motivation or bad eyesight, which underlines the value of the RCPM in an older
population. The fact that in a representative sample a number of respondents could not partici-
pate because of vision impairment should once more alert both clinicians and researchers in
their choice of intelligence tests with older patients. As the RCPM is one of the measures
acceptable for subjects with impaired eyesight, the use of some other intelligence tests may
result in larger numbers of subjects not able to perform on the task due to eyesight limitations.
Although the RCPM was designed to be used in older adults (among others), questions
may be raised on the discriminative power of section A in the younger old and in the highly
educated elderly, as the present data suggest a ceiling effect in these categories.
The clinical use of the RCPM will certainly benefit from the present data, although further
research is needed to provide norms for those respondents showing neurological or other disorders.
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