Open AccessCognitive impairment and its predictors: A cross-sectional study among the elderly in a rural community of West Bengal
Author(s) -
Aparajita Dasgupta,
Sauryadripta Ghose,
Bobby Paul,
Lina Bandyopadhyay,
Prasun Ghosh,
Akanksha Yadav
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_604_20
Subject(s) - medicine , cross sectional study , geriatric depression scale , depression (economics) , logistic regression , cluster sampling , gerontology , public health , demography , rural area , quality of life (healthcare) , population , cognition , environmental health , psychiatry , depressive symptoms , nursing , pathology , sociology , economics , macroeconomics
With the aging of Indian society, maintaining salubrious cognitive health in late life is a public health priority. Early detection and possible prevention of cognitive impairment (CI), thus, will help in increasing the quality of life of elderly people and decreasing the social, psychological, and economic burden of their families and caregivers.