Contrasting cognitive trajectories of impending death and preclinical dementia in the very old

Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 833-838

  Laukka, E J ^a   MacDonald, S W S ^b   Backman L ^b  

^a AGING RESEARCH CENTER   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DETERIORATION; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; LIFE EXPECTANCY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; DEMENTIA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 33645810363     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000203112.12554.f4     Document Type: Article

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