Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Care Staff(also: Care Worker, Direct Care Worker, Personal Care Aide)
- Individuals who provide day-to-day personal care and support to residents in care facilities, including assistance with eating, bathing, dressing, toileting, and mobility. Care staff are distinct from medical professionals such as nurses and doctors; they typically receive basic…
- Clinical Dementia Rating(also: CDR, CDR Scale)
- The Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) is a five-point staging scale used to characterise the severity of dementia, originally developed by Hughes and colleagues at Washington University in 1982. A clinician rates the person across six domains — memory, orientation, judgement and…
- Clock Drawing Test(also: CDT)
- The Clock Drawing Test (CDT) is a brief cognitive screening task in which a person is asked to draw a clock face, place the numbers, and set the hands to a specified time (commonly "ten past eleven"). Performance is scored on dimensions such as contour, number placement, and…
- Cognitive Stimulation(also: Cognitive Stimulation Therapy, CST)
- A structured programme of activities and discussions designed to engage and stimulate cognitive abilities — including memory, attention, language, and problem-solving — in people with mild to moderate dementia. Cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) is one of the few…
- Confabulation (Clinical)(also: Clinical Confabulation)
- Confabulation in a clinical sense is the unconscious production of fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories without the intent to deceive - the person genuinely believes what they are recounting. It is associated with dementia (particularly Alzheimer's and Korsakoff's…
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