Challenges of diagnosing dementia in the oldest old population

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1103-1111

  Slavin, Melissa J ^a   Brodaty, Henry ^a,b   Sachdev, Perminder S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Academic Department for Old Age Psychiatry   (Australia)

^c PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Centenarians; Cognition; Normative aging

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CENTENARIAN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NORMATIVE AGING; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFERENCE VALUE; REVIEW; VERY ELDERLY;

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; CENTENARIANS; COGNITION; NORMATIVE AGING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROIMAGING; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 84882337166     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: 1758535X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glt051     Document Type: Article

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