Mental and psychological conditions, medical comorbidity and functional limitation: Differential associations in older adults with cognitive impairment, depressive symptoms and co-existence of both

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1071-1079

  Millán Calenti, José C ^a   Maseda, Ana ^a   Rochette, Sophie ^a   Vázquez, Gustavo A ^a   Sánchez, Alba ^a   Lorenzo, Trinidad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

cognitive impairment; elderly people; functional limitation; geriatric depression; life expectancy; medical comorbidity

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMUNITY LIVING; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GENDER; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEOPLASM; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; SELF REPORT; ULCER; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SPAIN;

EID: 80052747940     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: 10991166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gps.2646     Document Type: Article

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