FUNCTIONAL EVALUATION DISTINGUISHES MCI PATIENTS FROM HEALTHY ELDERLY PEOPLE - THE ADCS/MCI/ADL SCALE pot

... of MCI patients from healthy elderly people (11). The present study showed that the ADCS /MCI/ ADL24 scale had a high accuracy and was superior to ADCS /MCI/ ADL18 scale in distinguishing aMCI patients ... around outside the home and driving a car were impaired in aMCI patients. The ADCS /MCI/ ADL24 scale was better than the ADCS /MCI/ ADL18 scale in distingui...

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... focused on the reasons for the use of qual- ity schemes and pointed out the advan tages of their implementation in improving services [24,55,56]. On the other hand, Ritchie and Dale suggest the existence ... stake- holders, especially with one another (76,92%). Further- more, although the results are less obvious with regard to autonomy and decision-making, our study demon- strate...

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... in the control of ga it. These cog- nitive functions are mostly attributed to so-called execu- tive control processes of the human brain [1 0-1 2]. A recent review on this topic summarizes the ... determine whether dual-task costs of gait in healthy elderly are explained by these three EF comp . We hypothesised that divided attention, memory and inhibition eac h explain compar- ab...

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... normative values for the FAS verbal fluency test derived from a large sample of cog- nitively healthy individuals examined in three large cities from the southeastern region of Brazil. The population ... used. The Student t-test was used to investigate possible dif- ferences in the number of answers between male and female individuals. ANOVA analysis was employed for the co...

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... motion range of the of knee in the elderly correlates well with their sig- nificantly shorter step length. The pelvic dynamic range of motion is larger in the elderly than in the young. The data ... electromyography. Changes in the electric potential of muscles were detected by mono- polar electrodes of 18 mm in diameter made from Ag-AgCl (blue sensor P-00-S, Ger- many)....

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... around them throughout the day. When they sit in front of their room they can watch what is going on in the compound: mothers bathing their babies, children sweeping, people returning from farming ... seven young men around the age of 18 and asked them what they meant when they said they respected old people. A(1). The meaning of the respect we have for the old is that, the...

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... such as the Rey-Osterrieth test [4,11 1-1 15], the most used in the literature. Similarly, the Block Construction from the Performance subtests of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale- Revised ... sub-group of MCI patients this marker is present. The sample included 26 normal controls, 21 AD patients, 8 elderly people with subjective memory complaints (SMC) and...

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... be isolated from the serum samples of the patients with acute coronary syn- drome. Furthermore, using combination of bacterio- logical and PCR-based methods we show herein that patients with ... analysis. Patients and serum specimens. The study protocol was approved by the Ros- tov-on- Don Medical University Ethics Committee. All patients were informed about the purpose...

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... downstream of the orchard receives the orchard discharge; the area of the watershed at the downstream site is 78.3 ha. The citrus orchard occupies 30.4 ha (39%) of the watershed, the remainder ... No. 4, 2009 - 269 - calculated using the relationship between the measured discharges with the current meter and the automatically measured water levels. The re...

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... Beisiegel U, Naber D, Muller-Thomsen T. CSF-tau, CSF-Abeta 1-4 2, ApoE-genotype and clinical parameters in the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease: combination of CSF- tau and MMSE yields highest ... diagnostic value of tau protein, beta-amyloid (1–42) and their ratio for the discrimination of alcohol-related cognitive disorders from Alzheimer’s disease in the early stages. Int J...

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