Prevalence of cognitive impairment and dementia as defined by neuropsychological test performance

Neuroepidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 121-129

  Larrea, Fernando A ^a   Fisk, John D ^a,c   Graham, Janice E ^b   Stadnyk, Karen ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c QUEEN ELIZABETH II HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive impairment; Dementia; Neuropsychological assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0034059703     PISSN: 02515350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000026247     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Canadian Study of Health and Aging Work Group: Canadian Study of Health and Aging: Study methods and prevalence of dementia. Can Med Assoc J 1994;150: 899-913.
2. American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, ed 3 rev. Washington, APA, 1987.
3. American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental disorders, ed. 4. Washington, APA, 1994.
4. Rockwood K, Tripp DA, Stadnyk K, Fisk JD: Screening for cognitive impairment in the elderly: Impact of physical function measures added to cognitive screening instruments. Aging Cogn 1994;1:261-270.
5. Rockwood K, Stadnyk K: The prevalence of dementia in the elderly: A review. Can J Psychiatry 1994;39: 253-257.
6. Evans DA, Funkenstein HH, Albert MS, Scherr PA, Cook NR, Chown MJ, Herbert LE, Hennekens CH, Taylor JO: Prevalence of Alzheimer's disease in a community population of older adults: Higher than previously reported. J Am Med Assoc 1989;262:2551-2556.
7. Evans DA, Scherr PA, Cook NR, Albert MS, Harris Funkenstein H, Smith LA, et al: Estimated prevalence estimates of Alzheimer's disease in the United States. Milbank Q 1990;68:267-289.
8. Graham JE, Rockwood K, Beattie BL, McDowell I, Eastwood R, Gauthier S: Standardization of the diagnosis of dementia in the Canadian Study of Health and Aging. Neuroepidemiology 1996;15:246-256.
9. Graham JE, Rockwood K, Beattie LB, Eastwood R, Gauthier S, Tuokko H, McDowell I: Prevalence and severity of cognitive impairment with and without dementia in an elderly population. Lancet 1997; 349;1793-1796.
10. Ebly E, Hogan DB, Parhad IM: Cognitive impairment of the nondemented elderly. Arch Neurol 1995; 52:612-619.
11. Tuokko H, Kristjansson E, Miller J: Neuropsychological detection of dementia: An overview of the neuropsychological component of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 1995;17: 352-373.
12. Herlitz A, Small BJ, Fratiglioni L, Almkvist O, Vittanen M, Backman L: Detection of mild dementia in community surveys: Is it possible to increase the accuracy of our diagnostic instruments. Arch Neurol 1997;54:319-324.
13. Folstein MF, Holstein SE, McHugh PR: 'Mini-Mental State': A practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician. J Geriatr Res 1975;12:189-198.
14. Molloy DW, Alemayehu E, Roberts R: Reliability of a standardized Mini-Mental State Examination compared with the traditional Mini-Mental State Examination. Am J Psychiatry 1991;148:102-105.
15. Fisk JD, Braha RED, Walker A, Gray J: The Halifax Mental Status Scale: Development of a new lest of mental status for use with elderly clients. Psychol Assess 1991;3:162-167.
16. Teng EL: The Modified Mini-Mental State (3MS) Examination. J Clin Psychiatry 1987;48:314-318.
17. Fisk JD, Rockwood K, Hondas B, Tripp DA, Stadnyk K, Doble SE: Cognitive screening in a population-based sample of community-living elderly: Effects of age and education on the construct of cognitive status. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 1995;10: 687-694.
18. Roth M, Tym E, Mountjoy CQ et al: CAMDEX: A standardized instrument for the diagnosis of dementia. Br J Psychiatry 1986;149:698-709.
19. Snow G: Behavioural Rating Scale: Manual of instructions. Toronto, Sunnybrook Medical Center, 1989.
20. McKhann G, Drachman D, Folstein M, et al: Clinical Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: Reports of the NINCDS-ADRDA work group under the auspices of the Department of Health and Human Services Task Force on Alzheimer's Disease. Neurology 1984;34:939-994.
21. World Health Organization: International classification of diseases, ed 10 rev. Geneva, WHO, 1987.
22. Sackett DL, Haynes RB, Guyatt BH, Tugwell P: Clinical Epidemiology: A Basic Science for Clinical Medicine, ed 2. Toronto, Little, Brown and Company, 1991.