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| Association between executive attention and physical functional performance in community-dwelling older women | | Author(s) | Michelle C Carlson, Linda P Fried, Qian-Li Xue |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 54B, no 5, September 1999 |
| Pages | pp S262-270 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Self care capacity ; Mobility ; Older women ; Living in the community ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Executive functions supervise the contents of working memory, where information from long-term memory is integrated with information in the immediate present. This study examined whether executive attentional abilities are uniquely associated with performance of complex, instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) in cognitively intact and physically high-functioning older women. Participants were 405 women living in the community, aged 70-80, and in the US Women's Health and Aging Study (WHAS) II. They were screened using the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). Hierarchical regression models, adjusted for demographic and disease variables, were used to evaluate the association of cognitive domains with summary measures of IADL and mobility-based ADL functions. Executive difficulties in flexibly planning and initiating a course of action were selectively associated with slower performance of higher order IADL tests, relative to other domains of cognition in the group tested. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991220225 A |
| Classmark | DB: CA: C4: BD: K4: 7T |
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