Cognitive testing of the elderly: An alternative assessment in visual pre-screening.It is a long standing and well documented assumption that the elderly suffer generalized decline in both physiological and psychological characteristics. However, this judgment may, in part, be due to the prevalent ...
Tests vary in duration from brief tests for quick screening at the bedside to more detailed tests of various domains of cognitive function that provide an in-depth assessment of an individual’s strengths and deficits. Ease of administration, scoring, and test-taking time are important aspects in...
We have previously developed and validated an upper-extremity function (UEF) test to assess slowness, weakness, exhaustion, and flexibility, with the main purpose of frailty assessment among older adults13,14,15. The UEF test integrates low-cost sensors and data acquisition system (as low as $...
This neuropsychological assessment was carried out by certified psychologists and included the following tests: Digit-span Forward (DF) and Backward (DB) test, Stroop Words (SW), Stroop Colors (SC), Stroop Words/Colors (SWC), Controlled Oral Word Association Test (COWAT-FAS; admissible words),...
clinical rehabilitation cognitive assessment in elderly patients admitted to hospital: the relationship between the abbreviated mental test and the mini-me... Introduction:routine cognitive screening for in-patients aged ≥75 years is recommended, but there is uncertainty around how this should be operat...
Keywords included were physical activity, sport, athletics, walking, physical training, cognition, cognitive, executive function, TELE (telephone assessment for dementia), TICS (Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status), MMSE (Mini-Mental State Examination), 3-MS (the Modified Mini-Mental State ...
Studies of Cognitive Dysfunction and Depression in Urologic Patients Aged 75 Years or Older, Pre and Post-operative Assessment PURPOSE: Cognitive impairment and psychiatric symptoms are relatively common in the elderly people. Recognizing them is important and mental status assessm... JW Jung,KS Lee ...
Particularly, we utilize the Chinese Diet Quality Index (CHEI), a dietary assessment tool tailored for Chinese populations, as a proxy for older adults’ diet quality. Methods Data were obtained from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) (N=2337, ≥55 years old) conducted in 2004 and...
Older adults have both worse general cognition and worse social cognition. A frequent suggestion is that worse social cognition is due to worse general cognition. However, previous studies have often provided contradictory evidence. The current study exa
Furthermore, subjects missing more than three values of the neuropsychological assessment (n = 2; for all other subjects missing values (ranging from 0 to 2.1% depending on the test) were replaced by the median of the respective age- (< 60; 60–64; 65–69; 70–74; 75–79; ...