Mild Cognitive Impairment in the Population and Physical Health: Data on 1,435 Individuals Aged 75 to 95

Abstract

Background. The physical health correlates of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in the older individual are poorly known. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between physical health and MCI with population data.

Objective and subjective memory impairment in elderly adults: a revised version of the Everyday Memory Questionnaire

“…In this study of subjective and objective measures of memory in the elderly population, to evaluate their usefulness as assessed by the EMQ and determining the best factor structure for this purpose, we found that 8.9% of elderly adults had an objective memory deficit, matching literature data reporting a prevalence between about 6% (29,30) and 15% (31). We had recruited our participants by means of a newspaper advertisement for attending a course on aging-related changes of memory, and this method may have induced a bias in sample selection, but as we found the same prevalence of memory deficits as reported in previous studies, we can assume that our sample was representative of the elderly population.…”

Cognitive Assessment of the Non-Demented Elderly Community Dwellers in Spain

“…The small gender-based differences observed in cognitive performance are not refl ected in other studies and, in our case, might be explained, in part, by the greater weight exerted on the Spanish elderly female population by two factors closely associated with cognitive impairment, namely lower education among women than among men and worse physical state [36,37] with an ensuingly greater occurrence of chronic disease. Another factor that could explain part of the observer differences among sexes is moderate consumption of wine, traditionally higher in males than in females, which, as other components of Mediterranean diet, has been identifi ed as a protective factor of cognitive decline [38] .…”

Is Mortality Increased in Mildly Cognitively Impaired Individuals?

“…These studies were based on three large population-based samples: the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (CSHA) [11,[15][16][17][18] , the Kungsholmen Project [10,19] and the OCTO study [12] . Relevant studies are displayed in detail in table 1 , showing different concepts including their definitions and the corresponding mortality risk.…”