Patterns of multimorbidity in a population-based cohort of older people: sociodemographic, lifestyle, clinical, and functional differences

A Marengoni, A Roso-Llorach… - The Journals of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background The aim of this study is to identify clusters of older persons based on their
multimorbidity patterns and to analyze differences among clusters according to …

Mild cognitive impairment history and current procedures in low-and middle-income countries: a brief review

L Hartle, H Charchat-Fichman - Dementia & Neuropsychologia, 2021 - SciELO Brasil
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a widely studied concept that has changed over time.
Epidemiology, diagnosis, costs, prognostics, screening procedures, and categorization have …

Resilience in family caregivers of Asian older people with dementia: An integrative review

T Duangjina, PE Hershberger, V Gruss… - Journal of Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To identify factors associated with resilience in family caregivers of Asian older people
with dementia based on Luthar and Cicchetti's definition of resilience. Design Integrative …

The relationship between perceived functional difficulties and the ability to live well with mild‐to‐moderate dementia: findings from the IDEAL programme

A Martyr, SM Nelis, C Quinn, JM Rusted… - … Journal of Geriatric …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives The objectives of the study are to investigate how different levels of functional
ability relate to quality of life, well‐being, and satisfaction with life, conceptualised as …

Predictors of awareness of functional ability in people with dementia: the contribution of personality, cognition, and neuropsychiatric symptoms–findings from the …

A Martyr, LD Gamble, SM Nelis, R Collins… - Dementia and Geriatric …, 2022 - karger.com
Introduction: Discrepancy scores reflecting the difference between parallel ratings made by
people living with dementia (PwD) in the mild-to-moderate stages and by their informants …

Patterns of discrepancies in different objects of awareness in mild and moderate Alzheimer's disease

IB Lacerda, RL Santos, T Belfort, JPS Neto… - Aging & Mental …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives: Awareness is considered a heterogeneous and non-linear phenomenon in
dementia. We aim to investigate patterns of change of different domains of awareness …

Predictors of functional impairment and awareness in people with dementia, mild cognitive impairment and healthy older adults from a middle-income country

L Hartle, DC Mograbi, HC Fichman, CA Faria… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Objective To investigate the demographic, clinical and cognitive correlates of functional
capacity and its awareness in people with dementia (PwD; n= 104), mild cognitive …

The effect of incontinence on depression among older adults: a longitudinal study in China

Y Zhang - Public Health, 2022 - Elsevier
Objectives Previous studies have found that incontinence was positively associated with
depression among older adults in Western countries; however, the cross-sectional design of …

Practice effect and test-retest reliability of the Mini-Mental State Examination-2 in people with dementia

YC Lee, SC Lee, EC Chiu - BMC geriatrics, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background The Mini-Mental State Examination-Second Edition (MMSE-2) consists
of three visions: a brief version (MMSE-2: BV), a standard version (MMSE-2: SV), and an …

[HTML][HTML] Using structural equation modeling in the understanding of functional disability in older adults

DMS Tavares, NGN Oliveira, FAD Marmo… - … latino-americana de …, 2021 - SciELO Brasil
Objective: to analyze functional disability and its associated factors among community-
dwelling older adults. Method: a cross-sectional study, conducted with 1,635 older adults …