Cognitive Improvement in Older Adults in the Year After Hip Fracture: Implications for Brain Resilience in Advanced Aging.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We examined cognitive function in nondemented, nondelirious older adults 1 year post hip fracture.

Design

Prospective observational study.

Setting and participants

Three hundred eighty-six hip fracture patients aged 60 years and older with no history of cognitive impairment, such as clinical dementia or persistent delirium, recruited from eight area hospitals 2-3 days after hip surgery (week 0), and 101 older adults with no recent acute medical events for control comparison.

Methods

Cognitive function was examined with the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status and the Short Blessed Test (SBT) at weeks 0 (SBT only), 4, and 52 using a repeated measures mixed model analysis. Baseline predictor variables included demographics,

SUBMITTER: Oughli HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6251311 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature