Equivalence of two screens of cognitive functioning: the Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire and the Orientation-Memory-Concentration Test
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Researchers conducted a study to determine the equivalence of two screens of cognitive functioning, which are the short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire (SPMSQ) and the Orientation-Memory-Concentration (OMC) test. They gathered a random sample of 3210 people 68 years of age and older. The findings revealed that on the SPMSQ and the OMC a percentage of people were rated cognitively impaired. They concluded that the SPMSQ and OMC are not equivalent and associations with race and education are greater for the OMC, while an association with age exists for both measures.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 1998
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The relationship of APOE genotype to cognitive functioning in older African-American and Caucasian community residents
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Research indicates that apolipoprotein E(4) is modestly related to declines in cognitive functioning and to poorer overall cognitive functioning in a study of African Americans and Caucasians aged 65 and older. These findings did not differ with either age or race.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2001
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Provider characteristics related to antidepressant use in older people
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Extent to which the characteristics of usual medical care providers of elderly antidepressant users in North Carolina, has changed between 1986 and 1997, with the introduction of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, is analyzed.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2006
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