Cognitive reserve and dementia A scientometric review

Pestana, Maria Helena de Aguiar Pereira e; Sobral, Margarida Isabel Rolland de Lima

doi:10.1590/1980-57642018dn13-010001

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“…A scientific review, analyzing 564 publications, suggests that individual differences in ability to cope with pathologies are consistent with predicting that people with higher CR. In addition, it is not a fixed construct and continues to evolve by measuring different variables to maintain cognitive function in old age [11].…”

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Relationship between Cognitive Reserve and Cognitive Impairment in Autonomous and Institutionalized Older Adults

Wöbbeking-Sánchez

Bonete-López

Cabaco

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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It is necessary to determine which variables help prevent the presence of decline or deterioration during the aging process as a function of advancing age. This research analyses the relations between cognitive reserve (CR) and cognitive impairment in 300 individuals. It also aims to confirm the influence of different variables (gender, age, level of studies and institutionalization) in CR and in deterioration in a population of older adults. The results indicate that people with higher CR present less deterioration. Regarding the role of the sociodemographic variables in the level of deterioration and CR, there are no differences between men and women, but there are differences in the variables age, level of studies and institutionalization, in such a way that the older age the greater the cognitive deterioration, the higher the level of studies, the more RC and less deterioration and it was found that the non-institutionalized people present less deterioration and greater CR. It is affirmed that two people with similar clinical characteristics may present different levels of pathology, being the CR the explanation of this fact. The results obtained allow us to affirm that the measurement of CR is considered an essential variable for the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases.

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confidence: 99%

Relationship between Cognitive Reserve and Cognitive Impairment in Autonomous and Institutionalized Older Adults

Wöbbeking-Sánchez

Bonete-López

Cabaco

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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“…These studies justify this protective effect with the improvement of cognitive capacity associated with the cultural level and brain exercise. (22,(25)(26)(27)(28).…”

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Profile of the care in patients with dementia in Primary Health Care.

Vicente-García,

León-Andaluz,

Juárez-Vela

et al. 2023

JHS

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Background. Dementia is a syndrome that cannot be considered a consequence of normal ageing. It is the main cause for disability and dependence among the elderly all over the world. Currently, there is no treatment that can cure or reverse the evolution of this disease. However, there are risk and protective factors that have a direct influence on the appearance of dementia This disease has a major impact, not only on the patients themselves, but also on their families, caregivers and the community at large. Consequently, it is essential to approach the management of those patients from the field of healthcare, both through medical consultation, with the detection, treatment and monitoring of the disease, and through nursing services, for control and monitoring. Primary care (PC) consultations are the first place where citizens with some kind of cognitive impairment go. Our objective is to analyze the assistance and profile received by these patients in Salamanca from the Primary Health Care teams. Methods. We performed a retrospective study from the year 2017 to the year 2019, using the computer software Medora 4 as a source for data. Our sample was created from 3483 registered patients, with ages between 0 and 98 years, with an average age of ± 79.88 years. Our results show that 76.7% of the patients are women with some type of dementia, and the most common diagnosis is Alzheimer's disease (AD). Statistically significant relationship was found between the diagnoses of depression and dementia.

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