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| Cognitive and motor impairments predict functional declines in patients with vascular dementia | | Author(s) | Patricia A Boyle, Ronald A Cohen, Robert Paul |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 17, no 2, February 2002 |
| Pages | pp pp 164-169 |
| Keywords | Cognitive impairment ; Dementia ; Self care capacity ; Mobility ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Vascular dementia (VaD) is associated with impairments in cognitive, motor and functional domains. Patients with VaD display diverse cognitive and motor deficits, however, and relationships between these impairments and independent living abilities remain unclear. In this study, the authors hypothesised that: motor abilities would emerge as a significant predictor of basic activities of daily living (ADLs), whereas attentional/executive abilities would not; and both motor and attentional/executive abilities would emerge as significant predictors of instrumental ADLs (IADLs). Stepwise regression analyses revealed that motor performance, but not attentional/executive abilities accounted for a significant proportion of the variance in basic ADLs, and that both motor and attentional/executive abilities contributed significantly to the prediction of IADLs. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020215215 A |
| Classmark | E4: EA: CA: C4: 49: 7T |
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