Normal aging and executive functions in "old-old" community dwellers: Poor performance is not an inevitable outcome

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 139-159

  Piguet, Olivier ^a,b   Grayson, David A ^a   Broe, G Anthony ^b   Tate, Robyn L ^a   Bennett, Hayley P ^b   Lye, Tanya C ^a   Creasey, Helen ^a   Ridley, Lloyd ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases   (Australia)

Author keywords

80 Years and over; Cognition; Dementia; Executive functions; Normal aging

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0036621929     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610202008359     Document Type: Article

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