Open AccessPrevalence of dementia in the intervening senior citizen the mini-mental test of the Centro Destellos de luz for older adults with an elderly status of 65 to 90 years of the City of Durango
Author(s) -
Esmeralda Margarita LERMA-NIEVES,
Ángel Adrián ONTIVEROS-VARGAS,
Isela Vanessa Herrera-Vargas,
Sagrario Lizeth SALAS-NAME
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
revista de ciencias de la salud
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2410-3551
DOI - 10.35429/johs.2022.26.9.1.8
Subject(s) - dementia , neurocognitive , gerontology , test (biology) , elderly people , population , affect (linguistics) , medicine , cognition , cognitive impairment , psychology , psychiatry , disease , environmental health , paleontology , communication , pathology , biology
Dementia is one of the neurocognitive disorders that most affect the elderly population, and refers to severe damage to executive functions and is classified according to the condition. (Esparza, 2005). The objective of the research is to identify the prevalence of dementia in the elderly in an age range of 65 to 90 years old in the Destellos de Luz Center in the City of Durango, as well as its main risk factors and the characteristics of people with dementia using the MiniMental Test. The type of methodology implemented is of mixed type and case studies using. In which a cognitive impairment was obtained as a result in the three participants. More than 50% of the population of older adults evaluated suffer from undetected dementia.