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| Depression and apathy affect functioning in community active subjects with questionable dementia and mild Alzheimer's disease | | Author(s) | Linda C W Lam, Cindy W C Tam, Helen F K Chiu |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 22, no 5, May 2007 |
| Pages | pp 431-437 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Depression ; Apathy ; Dementia ; Cognitive impairment ; Living in the community ; Hong Kong. |
| Annotation | 195 Hong Kong Chinese subjects aged 60+ with questionable dementia (QD) and 96 with mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) were recruited for this study. Apathy and depression were rated using the Neuropsychiatric Inventory and functional disability was measured using the Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD). Severity of apathy and depression symptoms were associated with poorer functional performance in QD and apathy was associated with poorer functional performance in AD. In QD, subjects with apathy, depression or coexistence of the two had poorer functional performance than those with neither apathy nor depression. The coexistence of apathy and depression did not produce more severe functional disability than apathy apathy alone or depression alone. In AD, subjects with apathy and depression had poorer functional performance that those without apathy. Depression in the absence of apathy was not associated with more severe functional disability. Apathy and depression symptoms are common in the early course of AD. Apathy and depression had different effects on functional performance in those with QD than those with AD. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070627221 A |
| Classmark | ENR: EPA: EA: E4: K4: 7DR |
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