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| Memory complaints in young and elderly subjects | | Author(s) | Christian Derouesné, Lucette Lacomblez, Stéphanie Thibault |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 14, no 4, April 1999 |
| Pages | pp 291-301 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Mental ageing ; Memory disorders ; Age groups [elderly] ; Adults ; Comparison ; France. |
| Annotation | Complaints of poor memory for everyday events are common in healthy older people. This French study aimed to compare in two healthy subject groups under and over 50 years of age, the relationship between severity of memory complaints and cognitive performance, and those between severity of memory complaints and affective status. The authors reviewed the files of subjects attending a memory clinic of a Paris hospital. Subjects rated the severity of memory complaints as major or minor. They filled in an 8-item questionnaire assessing various memory difficulties in everyday life. Relationship between severity and demographic data, memory performance and affective status were compared in 183 non-depressed, non-cognitively impaired healthy adults aged 50 and over, and in 77 older people. Memory complaints do not appear basically different between the two age groups, although these were related to gender in younger subjects and to subjective assessment of well-being in older people. They constitute a complex psychological symptom unlikely to be explained by a few variables and cannot be reduced to the subjective counterpart of memory performance decline associated with ageing. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990825250 A |
| Classmark | DB: D6: EH: BB: SD: 48: 765 |
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