Living With Ambiguity: A Metasynthesis of Qualitative Research on Mild Cognitive Impairment | Zendy

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Living With Ambiguity: A Metasynthesis of Qualitative Research on Mild Cognitive Impairment

Author(s) -

Tim Gomersall,

Arlene Astell,

Louise Nygård,

Andrew Sixsmith,

Alex Mihailidis,

Amy Hwang

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

the gerontologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524

H-Index - 138

eISSN - 1758-5341

pISSN - 0016-9013

DOI - 10.1093/geront/gnv067

Subject(s) - ambiguity , dementia , psychology , meaning (existential) , cognition , consistency (knowledge bases) , qualitative research , clarity , anxiety , affect (linguistics) , activities of daily living , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , social psychology , disease , medicine , psychotherapist , sociology , psychiatry , social science , philosophy , linguistics , biochemistry , geometry , mathematics , chemistry , communication , pathology

Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a diagnosis proposed to describe an intermediate state between normal cognitive aging and dementia. MCI has been criticised for its conceptual fuzziness, its ambiguous relationship to dementia, and the tension it creates between medical and sociological understandings of "normal aging".

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