Cognitive complaints as an early predictor of dementia
2020
University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia
The authors examined 873 elderly adults over a six-year period and showed that self-reported cognitive complaints are associated with an increased risk of dementia later in life. Therefore, from a real-world clinical perspective, when older adults present to their general practitioner with memory-specific cognitive complaints, it would be prudent to take this seriously as they can be an early prediction of a decline in global cognition.
Participant and informant memory-specific cognitive complaints predict future decline and incident dementia: Findings from the Sydney Memory and Ageing Study
Katya Numbers
Added on: 05-26-2020
[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0232961
