Abstract:
:Little is known about the prevalence of dementia and its associated risk factors in developing countries. Some studies suggest that the prevalence of dementia is lower in developing countries than it is in high-income nations. We sought to determine risk factors for dementia in elderly persons in central Nigeria. Using the standardized Community Screening Instrument for Dementia, we screened a stratified, random community sample of 280 persons aged 65 years and older for dementia. We examined the independent association of known risk factors with dementia using logistic regression. The overall prevalence of dementia was 6.4% (95% CI 3.8-9.9%). Independent risk factors for dementia included female sex (OR 8.4; 95% CI 1.9-39), body mass index of 18.5 kg/m2 or less (OR 3.5; 95% CI 1.2-9.9), and age (OR 1.05 per year; 95% CI 1.00-1.11). Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use was associated with a reduced risk of dementia (OR 0.20; 95% CI 0.04-0.93). Education, blood pressure, history of stroke, family history of dementia, and rural residence were not significantly associated with dementia in the multivariate model. The prevalence of dementia in central Nigeria may be greater than that found in other developing countries. Female sex, low body mass index, lack of NSAID use, and advancing age were the major risk factors in this population.
journal_name
Aging Ment Healthjournal_title
Aging & mental healthauthors
Ochayi B,Thacher TDdoi
10.1080/13607860600736182subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2006-11-01 00:00:00pages
616-20issue
6eissn
1360-7863issn
1364-6915pii
VLW0613H25225777journal_volume
10pub_type
杂志文章abstract:OBJECTIVE:The intent of this exploratory qualitative study was to examine African American Baptist clergy's pastoral care to older congregants with mental disorders. Critical Race Theory was the guiding framework in this study. METHOD:A purposive sample of 18 African American clergy participated in one-on-one intervie...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/13607863.2017.1364343
更新日期:2018-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Few studies have measured the impact of dementia-related fear on daily functioning, despite its clinical relevance. Our aim was to determine the relationship between fear-avoidance of memory loss, perceived memory failures and self-reported quality of life in a community based sample of older adults using a ...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/13607863.2020.1856780
更新日期:2020-12-09 00:00:00
abstract::Formal cognitive testing is an integral part of the mental state examination, and we aimed to test whether clinicians were able to predict the score on the mini-mental state examination (MMSE) by watching a conversation between a person and the interviewer about their memory. A total of 41 professionals rated 30 patie...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/13607860902845566
更新日期:2010-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::This paper presents the results of a meta-analysis to assess the effectiveness of reminiscence on psychological well-being across different target groups and treatment modalities. Fifteen controlled outcome studies were included. An overall effect size of 0.54 was found, indicating a moderate influence of reminiscence...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析,评审
doi:10.1080/13607860600963547
更新日期:2007-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:Despite being identified as a significant clinical phenomenon, wandering of persons with dementia (PWDs) has not been studied in Korea. As an initial trial, various factors chosen from the literature for their predictive relationships to wandering of Korean PWDs were evaluated in this study. METHOD:A total ...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/13607860802120821
更新日期:2008-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Objective: We examined: 1. depression rates among senior center clients; and 2. the acceptability of a lay-delivered intervention for depression ("Do More, Feel Better") from the perspective of key stakeholders prior to its implementation.Method: We conducted cross-sectional surveys at four Seattle-area senior centers...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/13607863.2019.1698515
更新日期:2019-12-04 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:There is a paucity of research on antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) in the geriatric population and the majority of knowledge on the disorder is drawn from young adult samples. Researchers posit that the prevalence of ASPD as well as other personality disorders (PDs) is underestimated among older adults...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/13607863.2020.1839867
更新日期:2020-10-27 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:The objective of this study was to understand the relationship between mental health service use and comorbid any anxiety and commonly occurring physical conditions (i.e., arthritis, cardiovascular disease, and gastrointestinal disease) in a national sample of older Canadians. METHODS:The sample consisted o...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/13607863.2015.1033678
更新日期:2016-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Objectives: This study investigated the association between healthy lifestyle comprised of multiple domains, gender, and cognitive function in older Chinese people in Hong Kong.Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional analysis with data from 1,831 community-dwellers aged 65 years and above. Participants' basic demograp...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/13607863.2018.1539833
更新日期:2020-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::When diagnosis of dementia occurs earlier in the disease process, more time is available for treatment aimed at maintaining patient function and delaying decline, and for family education about the disease and its management. Primary care providers often, however, face challenges in making timely diagnoses. Nineteen p...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/13607860410001725018
更新日期:2004-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Objectives: Providing care for family members with Alzheimer's disease (AD) might awaken ambivalent feelings in caregivers. This topic, however, has received little research attention. Having reliable and valid scales is a first step in expanding our knowledge in this area, particularly among different cultural groups...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/13607863.2020.1715341
更新日期:2020-01-20 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:Depression and anxiety are common in later life, particularly when people are frail. This leads to reduced quality of life, faster decline in physical health and increased health/social care use. Available treatments are commonly not tailored to people with frailty. We explored frail older peoples' experienc...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/13607863.2019.1647132
更新日期:2020-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:The effect of chronic disease status on quality of life (QoL) has been well established. However, less is known about how chronic diseases affect QoL. This article examines impairment in three domains of the WHO International Classification of Functioning, Health and Disability (ICF) - body function, activit...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/13607863.2014.955457
更新日期:2015-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:This study aimed at investigating the point prevalence of life weariness and suicidal thoughts and their relationship with socio-demographic characteristics in a population of older adults in Sweden. METHOD:Data from 7913 individuals aged 60 years and older were drawn from the Swedish National Study on Agin...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/13607863.2017.1348484
更新日期:2018-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:Depression is common in older adults and is linked to morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to investigate whether specific symptoms of depression (dysphoria, anhedonia and anergia) predicted mortality in older Australian Aged Care residents. METHODS:Eighty older adults (M = 83.16 ± 7.14) witho...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/13607863.2021.1872491
更新日期:2021-01-18 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:The research largely aimed at exploring the impact of marital status, cognitive efficiency, gender, physical health and sociocultural context on self-rated emotional competence, depression, memory and cognitive measures. METHOD:Ninety-four healthy adults aged 75-99 were recruited in the Sardinian province o...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/13607863.2013.866635
更新日期:2014-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:Frailty affects an estimated 15% of community dwelling older adults. Few studies look at psychosocial variables like self-efficacy (confidence to perform well at a particular task or life domain) in relation to frailty. The purpose of this study was to evaluate associations between pre-frailty/frailty and se...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/13607863.2019.1639136
更新日期:2020-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:In younger populations childhood sexual and physical abuse have been found to be associated with suicidal ideation. Such associations have not been examined among older adults. SETTING:Data from the National Comorbidity Study-Replication (NCS-R). PARTICIPANTS:Older adults (60+, N = 1610) from the NCS-R sam...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/13607863.2012.758236
更新日期:2013-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:Approximately 32.7% of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in the USA are now over the age of 50. Women comprise a significant percentage of the US HIV epidemic and the percentage of women diagnosed with HIV continues to grow; however, little is known about women's experiences living and coping with HIV over...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/13607863.2014.917608
更新日期:2015-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::This article provides a review of the literature on clinical correlates of awareness in dementia. Most inconsistencies were found with regard to an association between depression and higher levels of awareness. Dysthymia, but not major depression, is probably related to higher levels of awareness. Anxiety also appears...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1080/13607860500143075
更新日期:2005-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Many healthcare professionals in Hong Kong are now working in dementia care, but little is known about their informational needs in this area. This study explored the level of knowledge about dementia that healthcare professionals perceived themselves as having, and the informational needs of dementia care. 320 respon...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/1360786031000120688
更新日期:2003-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:Stressors are critical to the caregiver stress process, yet little work has examined resources that contribute to longitudinal changes in subjective stressors. The present study examines a variety of factors that contribute to changes in subjective stressors across time. METHOD:Dementia caregivers (N = 153)...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/13607863.2017.1402292
更新日期:2019-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:Fear of falling leads to many adverse consequences and may compromise the quality of life of older adults. Psychological factors are potential mediators between the fear of falling and quality of life, but have yet to be explored in detail. This study presents results from examining the mediating effect of t...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/13607863.2013.805398
更新日期:2013-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Only a few studies have specifically considered the role of caregiver characteristics in the presence of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). The aim of this study was to determine whether there were differences in the presence of individual BPSD between community-dwelling dementia care ...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/13607863.2013.790927
更新日期:2013-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:This qualitative study aimed to illuminate former family caregivers' experiences of aspects that facilitate and hinder the process of relinquishing the care of a person with dementia to a nursing home. METHOD:Ten narrative interviews with former family caregivers were performed and subjected to qualitative ...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/13607863.2014.908456
更新日期:2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The authors used attachment theory to hypothesize about the possible long-term psychological effects of evacuation during World War II, focusing on children who were evacuated unaccompanied by their parents. The study aimed to establish whether this experience had long-term effects on psychological well-being, and to ...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/1360786031000150711
更新日期:2003-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::The purpose of this study was to consider the contribution of intergenerational exchange to mental health. Using data from a national sample of Jewish Israelis age 60 and over with children (n = 1799), reciprocal and non-reciprocal exchange patterns were identified and examined in relation to respondents' scores on a ...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/13607860410001669723
更新日期:2004-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Older people with dementia living in care homes often lack appropriate activities. Although homes are expected to offer a range of activities to meet residents' needs, little is known about what makes activities meaningful for people with dementia. This study explores concepts of meaningful activity, as defi...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/13607860802343019
更新日期:2008-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::The present paper discusses recruitment of older African-Americans for a psycho-physiological study using the matching model of recruitment proposed by Levkoff, Levy, and Weitzman (2000). The hallmark of the model by Levkoff et al. is that there must be a match between research and minority communities' perspectives i...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1080/13607860500409781
更新日期:2006-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to explore the main and mediating influences of stressors, a caregiver's appraisal, coping, personal conditions and social resources on the burden of dementia caregivers. METHOD:The study sample consisted of 95 spousal caregivers of non-institutionalized persons with dementia. A pa...
journal_title:Aging & mental health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/13607860701368463
更新日期:2007-11-01 00:00:00