An updated measure for investigating basic knowledge of Alzheimer's disease in underserved rural settings.

abstract：:Objective: This study aims to analyze the psychometric properties of the new Brazilian-Portuguese version of the Brief Resilience Scale (B-BRS) in older adults.Method: A sample of 1251 participants (54.20% women; M = 68.02 years, SD = 6.52) completed the B-BRS and seven scales on successful aging and mental health. Co...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： da Silva-Sauer L,de la Torre-Luque A,Smith BW,C M C Lins M,Andrade S,Fernández-Calvo B

更新日期：2020-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: To examine the extent to which time perspective, an individual's habitual way of relating to the past, the present, and the future time frames, accounts for variations in self-reported depressive symptoms among older adults. Method: Four hundred two participants (60-90 years) completed the Center for Epide...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Åström E,Rönnlund M,Adolfsson R,Grazia Carelli M

更新日期：2019-12-01 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

authors： Frost R,Nair P,Aw S,Gould RL,Kharicha K,Buszewicz M,Walters K

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Global increases in life expectancy are expected to continue, with accompanying physical and mental well-being challenges specifically for older people living in residential care settings. OBJECTIVE:The aim of the study was to investigate the association between mental well-being and social capital of old...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Chipps J,Jarvis MA

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: Impaired cognition and pre-frailty are associated with poor health outcomes. However, research has not examined the combined impact of cognitive impairment and pre-frailty on future frailty and mortality among older Mexican Americans. Methods: Data for this analysis came from the 2006-2007 and 2010-2011 wa...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Downer B,Al Snih S,Howrey BT,Raji MA,Markides KS,Ottenbacher KJ

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive aging research suggests that environmental support can minimize memory failures in older adults. Similarly, designers of dwellings for frail and dementing older populations try to provide prosthetic environments to support greater independence. We review some of these research issues and design practices fro...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Charness N,Holley P

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The associations between subclinical depressive symptoms, as well specific symptom subscales, on brain structure in aging are not completely elucidated. This study investigated the extent to which depressive symptoms were related to brain volumes in fronto-limbic structures in a sample of middle-aged to olde...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Szymkowicz SM,Woods AJ,Dotson VM,Porges EC,Nissim NR,O'Shea A,Cohen RA,Ebner NC

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background and objectives: People with dementia occupy around one quarter of general hospital beds, with concerns consistently raised about care quality. Improving workforce knowledge, skills and attitudes is a mechanism for addressing this. However little is known about effective ways of training healthcare staff abo...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Surr CA,Sass C,Burnley N,Drury M,Smith SJ,Parveen S,Burden S,Oyebode J

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The steeling effect suggests that early-life adversity can have a beneficial impact later in life. However, little is known about its underlying mechanisms and long-term outcomes . The study aimed to examine the role of early-life adversity (ELA) on successful aging, and whether this relationship can be expl...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Höltge J,Mc Gee SL,Thoma MV

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The current research explores how family caregivers (1) make sense of caregiving and (2) cope with their circumstance. METHOD:We analysed semistructured interviews of 13 caregivers of people with either stroke (n = 5) or dementia (n = 8) and used photographs that caregivers took exemplifying their caregivin...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Williams KL,Morrison V,Robinson CA

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Research shows that formal and informal social support can facilitate resilience in carers. There is a paucity of research exploring social support and resilience amongst recently bereaved informal carers. Aim: To examine how the presence or absence of distinct dimensions of social support facilitate or hi...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Roper L,Donnellan W,Hanratty B,Bennett K

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Care managers and professional caregivers of home care services are sometimes unaware of the psychosocial approaches to the challenging behaviour of dementia. Therefore, we developed a Behaviour Analytics & Support Enhancement (BASE) programme. We investigated the effects of the programme on the attitudes to...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Nakanishi M,Endo K,Hirooka K,Nakashima T,Morimoto Y,Granvik E,Minthon L,Nägga K,Nishida A

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate changes of cognitive performances in female elderly patients with osteoporosis and to determine whether any impairments can be attributed to dysregulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. METHODS:This cross-sectional study included 277 postmenopausal women, who were divided i...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Peng W,Li Z,Guan Y,Wang D,Huang S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To explore the key components representative of measures of psychosocial functioning with a focus on identifying the constituents of psychological distress in an Irish sample of community-dwelling older adults and to examine the relationship between these components and health outcomes such as frailty. METH...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Schnittger RI,Walsh CD,Casey AM,Wherton JP,McHugh JE,Lawlor BA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine whether the incidence of stroke influences affective well-being (positive affect and negative affect), and whether such a relationship is moderated by general self-efficacy. METHOD:Longitudinal data from 2008, 2011 and 2014 were used from a population-based sample of community-residing individual...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Buczak-Stec E,König HH,Hajek A

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate informal caregivers' psychological well-being and predicted increase in psychological well-being, when caring for persons with dementia (PwDs) living at home, related to caregiver, PwD and formal care (FC) factors. METHOD:A cohort study at baseline and 3 months' follow-up in eight European co...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Lethin C,Renom-Guiteras A,Zwakhalen S,Soto-Martin M,Saks K,Zabalegui A,Challis DJ,Nilsson C,Karlsson S

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Late-life suicide is a complex clinical and public health problem. METHOD:In this article, some of the key complexities inherent in studying late-life suicide are discussed in the service of promoting high-quality late-life suicide prevention science. RESULTS:We discuss the following research issues: the re...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Van Orden KA,Conwell Y

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study was carried out in an effort to determine the effect of music therapy on depression and physiological parameters in elderly people who were living in a nursing home. METHOD:The study was a randomized controlled trial. The study sample consisted of 64 elderly people who complied with the criteria o...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Gök Ugur H,Yaman Aktaş Y,Orak OS,Saglambilen O,Aydin Avci İ

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to investigate physical decline over 1-year in a cohort of older people across the cognitive spectrum. METHODS:Physical function was assessed using the Physiological Profile Assessment (PPA) in 593 participants (cognitively normal [CN]: n = 342, mild cognitive impairment [MCI]: n =...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Taylor ME,Boripuntakul S,Toson B,Close JCT,Lord SR,Kochan NA,Sachdev PS,Brodaty H,Delbaere K

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: There is an association between depression and diminished social support; indeed, interpersonal dysfunction is often a central feature of depression. The purpose of this study is to examine the role that an emotion regulation (ER) strategy, cognitive reappraisal, plays in influencing the association betwee...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Sachs-Ericsson N,Carr D,Sheffler J,Preston TJ,Kiosses D,Hajcak G

更新日期：2019-12-26 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

authors： Liu T,Luo H,Tang JY,Wong GH

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Spousal dementia carers have unique support needs; they are likely to disengage from their existing social networks as they need to devote more time to caring as the disease progresses. Previously we showed that support resources can facilitate resilience in carers, but the relationship is complex and varies...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Donnellan WJ,Bennett KM,Soulsby LK

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Delirium is a common condition in older adults which can have devastating outcomes. The studies about delirium in intensive care units (ICU) are relatively rare compared to studies in the non-ICU setting. This study aimed to study the prevalence, incidence, and risk factors of delirium among older Thai adult...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Limpawattana P,Panitchote A,Tangvoraphonkchai K,Suebsoh N,Eamma W,Chanthonglarng B,Tiamkao S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: More positive attitudes to aging are associated with better health and wellbeing outcomes. This study examined whether chronological age moderated relationships between attitudes to aging and wellbeing outcomes, and whether these relationships differ according to the specific attitudinal construct measured...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Faudzi FNM,Armitage CJ,Bryant C,Brown LJE

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Hong Kong, older Chinese adults generally have a low level of education. This study examined the effect of education on very mild Alzheimer's disease (AD), as quantified by Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) scale (CDR 0.5 versus 0), in a Chinese community. The Cantonese version of the Mini-Mental State Exami...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Tse CS,Chang JF,Leung GT,Fung AW,Hau KT,Chiu HF,Lam LC

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many countries there is a concern to improve assessment procedures for older people to avoid misplacement in nursing homes and ensure that rehabilitation takes place where possible. The study examined assessment documentation in 126 care homes in North West England. On a set of core domains for assessing need, the ...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Worden A,Challis DJ,Pedersen I

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of older adults' health status and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) often rely on proxy responses when subjects have problems that affect their ability to respond. With the increased interest in outcomes research in health care, it is important to examine proxy reliability on HRQoL instruments. This stud...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Yip JY,Wilber KH,Myrtle RC,Grazman DN

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To identify latent subgroups of women in late life who are alike in terms of their mental health trajectories. METHOD:Longitudinal data are for 9683 participants in the 1921-1926 cohort of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health, who completed at least two surveys between 1999 (aged 73-78 years)...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Leigh L,Byles JE,Chojenta C,Pachana NA

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Gerontopsychiatric nursing home residents are residents with a chronic mental condition (not dementia), in combination with one or more physical disorders. Psychiatric and behavioral problems are common within this population. The objective of this study is to examine these behaviors and their relationship t...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： van der Wolf E,van Hooren SAH,Waterink W,Lechner L

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: Hong Kong - Vigilance and Memory Test (HK-VMT) is developed to distinguish early cognitive impairment in the pre-symptomatic phase from normal cognitive ageing in older adults. The objectives were to validate HK-VMT to differentiate mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and healthy control (HC), and to explore t...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Fung AW,Lam LCW

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00