A review of the epidemiology of depression in Korea

JH Park, KW Kim - Journal of the Korean Medical …, 2011 - synapse.koreamed.org
Depression is one of the most significant public health problems in Korea. The lifetime
prevalence rates of major depressive disorder (MDD) in Korean adults have ranged from …

Frailty: a global health challenge in need of local action

SD Dlima, A Hall, AQ Aminu, A Akpan, C Todd… - BMJ Global …, 2024 - gh.bmj.com
Frailty is a complex, age-related clinical condition that involves multiple contributing factors
and raises the risk of adverse outcomes in older people. Given global population ageing …

Education and wealth inequalities in healthy ageing in eight harmonised cohorts in the ATHLOS consortium: a population-based study

YT Wu, C Daskalopoulou, GM Terrera… - The Lancet Public …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background The rapid growth of the size of the older population is having a substantial effect
on health and social care services in many societies across the world. Maintaining health …

The health and retirement study harmonized cognitive assessment protocol project: study design and methods

KM Langa, LH Ryan, RJ McCammon, RN Jones… - …, 2020 - karger.com
Abstract Introduction: The Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP) Project is a
substudy within the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), an ongoing nationally …

Super aging in South Korea unstoppable but mitigatable: a sub-national scale population projection for best policy planning

KW Kim, OS Kim - Spatial demography, 2020 - Springer
This research portrays the spatial and temporal progression of super-aging in regions
throughout South Korea. Using a single-year population projection considering gross …

[HTML][HTML] Korean version of mini mental status examination for dementia screening and its' short form

TH Kim, JH Jhoo, JH Park, JL Kim, SH Ryu… - Psychiatry …, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective We developed a Korean version of Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE)
optimized for screening dementia (MMSE-DS) and its' short form (SMMSE-DS). Methods We …

Korean frailty and aging cohort study (KFACS): cohort profile

CW Won, S Lee, J Kim, D Chon, S Kim, CO Kim… - BMJ open, 2020 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Purpose The purpose of the Korean Frailty and Aging Cohort Study (KFACS) is to initiate a
nationwide, population-based prospective cohort study of older adults living in the …

Development of the subjective memory complaints questionnaire

JC Youn, KW Kim, DY Lee, JH Jhoo, SB Lee… - Dementia and geriatric …, 2009 - karger.com
Aim: We aimed toevaluatethe psychometric properties of the Subjective Memory Complaints
Questionnaire (SMCQ). Methods: The reliability of the SMCQ was evaluated by testing its …

Prevalence and outcomes of frailty in Korean elderly population: comparisons of a multidimensional frailty index with two phenotype models

HW Jung, SW Kim, S Ahn, JY Lim, JW Han, TH Kim… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background Frailty is related to adverse outcomes in the elderly. However, current status
and clinical significance of frailty have not been evaluated for the Korean elderly population …

Cognitive measures in the Canadian longitudinal study on aging

H Tuokko, LE Griffith, M Simard… - The Clinical …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: We describe the implementation of cognitive measures within the Canadian
Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA), a nationwide, epidemiological study of aging, and …