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Dementia psychiatric symptoms and immobility: A one‐year follow‐up
Author(s) -
Ballinger Brian R.,
McHarg Anne M.,
MacLennan William J.,
Ogston Simon
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
international journal of geriatric psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1099-1166
pISSN - 0885-6230
DOI - 10.1002/gps.930030209
Subject(s) - dementia , psychiatry , medicine , association (psychology) , cognition , cognitive decline , cross sectional study , psychology , gerontology , disease , pathology , psychotherapist
One hundred elderly patients investigated for a cross‐sectional relationship between dementia and limited mobility were reviewed a year later. Forty patients had died during this time. While there was a strong relationship between poor mobility and mortality, there was little between psychiatric function or symptoms and mortality. There was also a considerable decline in physical function over the year, but little association between original mental function and this. Finally, there was a decline in cognitive function. There was no increase in the frequency of other psychiatric symptoms, but different patients were affected by particular symptoms initially and one year later.