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The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 56:P314-P318 (2001)
© 2001 The Gerontological Society of America


RESEARCH ARTICLE

A 5-Year Retrospective Examination of Cognitive Screening Test Stages in Normal Older Adults and Patients With Alzheimer's Disease

The Tajiri Project

Kenichi Meguroa, Masumi Shimadaa, Satoshi Yamaguchia, Junichi Ishizakia, Atsushi Yamadoria and Yasuyoshi Sekitab

a Division of Neuropsychology, Department of Disability Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
b Division of Health Care System Science, Department of Planning for Welfare Programs and Public Policy, Tohoku University Graduate School of Economics, Sendai, Japan

Kenichi Meguro, Division of Neuropsychology, Department of Disability Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine 2-1, Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, 980-8575 Sendai, Japan E-mail: meg{at}mail.cc.tohoku.ac.jp.

Decision Editor: Toni C. Antonucci, PhD

One conception of aging and cognitive deterioration is that cognitive decline becomes common with age, and dementia may be regarded as one extreme of the continuum. An alternative conception is that the cognitive process is spared by the aging process itself and that cognitive functioning of normal older adults and those with slight cognitive impairment, a CDR (Clinical Dementia Rating) score of 0.5 (suspected dementia), should be different. We examined changes in the screening test performances of 170 older adults over a 5-year period and found the following: (a) The CDR 0 (normal) participants did not show remarkable changes even in the older groups and (b) the subitems of orientation, memory, and so forth were useful for distinguishing normal older adults from early Alzheimer's disease patients. The results support the idea that dementia is better conceptualized as an age-related than as an "aging-related" disorder and that a CDR score of 0.5 should be considered very mild Alzheimer's disease.







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