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| Anxiety disorder, accompanying subjective memory loss in the elderly as a predictor of future cognitive decline | | Author(s) | Gary Sinoff, Perla Werner |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 18, no 10, October 2003 |
| Pages | pp 951-959 |
| Keywords | Anxiety ; Depression ; Memory disorders ; Mental ageing ; Assessment procedures for mental patients ; Israel. |
| Annotation | The hypothesis is investigated that anxiety in older people, secondary to less of memory, predicts future cognitive decline. Participants in this Israeli study were 137 people aged 60+ with no depression or cognitive impairment from a community geriatric assessment unit; 45% had anxiety. As well as demographic characteristics, cognitive status was assessed using the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE); depression was assessed by Tucker's short Interview-Assisted Depression Rating Scale, anxiety by Sinoff's Short Anxiety Screening Test, and activities of daily living (ADL) function by Shah's modified Barthel's Index. Mean re-examination time was 3.2 years, with no group differences. Anxiety was found to be inter-related and inseparable with loss of memory; and its presence is a strong predictor for future cognitive decline, directly or indirectly via depression. It appears that memory loss is the initial problem with consequent development of anxiety. Therefore, anxiety, like depression, is probably an early predictor of future cognitive decline and even possible future cognitive impairment. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-031106207 A |
| Classmark | ENP: ENR: EH: D6: DA:4C: 7H6 |
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