Cognitive, physical and disability trajectories in community-dwelling elderly people.

ABSTRACT:

Backgrounds and aims

Health trajectories in aging, rather than single time-point assessments, could be early indicators of the onset of conditions such as dementia. The aim of this study was to identify different aging trajectories and to investigate their influence on the cumulative incidence of dementia.

Methods

We evaluated data referring to 993 elders from the InveCe.Ab study cohort. All subjects were free from dementia at baseline and re-assessed on at least one other occasion thereafter. Cognitive function was assessed using the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), physical function using the Walking Speed Test (WST), and disability on the basis of the Activities of Daily Living (ADL) score. To describe the different courses of the three outcomes combined, the Group-B

SUBMITTER: Ferraro OE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8531096 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature