The role of disability and depressive symptoms in the relation between objective cognitive performance and subjective cognitive decline.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) and subjective memory decline (SMD) are common among older people. Evidence linking SCD and SMD with cognitive and memory impairment is inconsistent. Moreover, little is known about the associations of SCD and SMD with disability. We aimed to explore the associations of SCD and SMD with objective cognitive and memory performance, disability, and depressive symptoms.

Materials and methods

In a cross-sectional study we conducted face to face interviews in a randomized sample of people aged ≥65 years living in the Canton of Ticino, southern Switzerland, between May 2021 and April 2022. We measured subjective cognitive decline with the MyCog, a subsection of the Subjective Cognitive Decline Questionnaire (SCD-Q); cognitive functionin

SUBMITTER: Pacifico D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9729556 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature