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Decline across different domains of cognitive function in normal ageing
— results of a longitudinal population-based study using CAMCOG | | Author(s) | Sarah Cullum, Felicia A Huppert, Magnus McGee |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 15, no 9, September 2000 |
| Pages | pp 853-862 |
| Keywords | Mental health [elderly] ; Mental ageing ; Evaluation ; Longitudinal surveys ; Cambridge. |
| Annotation | There is evidence that cognitive impairment in dementia is on a continuum with cognitive impairment in non-demented older people. To investigate this possibility, the authors need detailed knowledge about the population distribution of cognitive function and change in cognitive function. This study describes the different domains of cognitive function over 4 years of some 500 participants from the Cambridge City Over-75 Cohort (CC75C), an ongoing longitudinal study. Respondents were interviewed using the Cambridge Cognitive Examination (CAMCOG); 135 of the 212 non-demented subjects completed CAMCOG again at follow-up. There was a statistically significant decline in all of the CAMCOG subscales. Greater decline in the Memory subscale was associated with less education. Greater decline in the Attention/Calculation subscale was associated with manual social class. Greater decline in the Perception subscale was associated with older age. Decline in specific cognitive domains may indicate a reversible phase of cognitive impairment. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001107213 A |
| Classmark | D: D6: 4C: 3J: 8CF |
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