Geriatric Sentence Completion Test

The Geriatric Sentence Completion Test was developed to assess personality characteristics of older adults in a projective format.

Scoring: The Geriatric Sentence Completion Test elicits personal responses in four domains: physical, psychological, socioenvironmental, and temporal orientation. The manual lacks any suggested scoring system.

Reliability: No information on reliability was included in the manual.

Validity: No information on validity was included in the manual. The manual does provide five clinical case illustrations. Four of these concern individuals who are at least 79 years old, so the question of applicable range is a pertinent one.

Norms: No information on norms was included in the manual.

Suggested Uses: The Geriatric Sentence Completion Test offers clinicians an assessment tool that may be useful in working with the elderly.