Perfil das habilidades cognitivas no envelhecimento normal

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Valéria Lopes De
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Borges, Mirian Fernanda, Vitória, Cássia Maria Da Silva, Chiappetta, Ana Lúcia de Magalhães Leal [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1516-18462009005000056; http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/5697
• topic: Aged; Neuropsychology; Cognition; Idoso; Neuropsicologia; Cognição

PURPOSE: to analyze the cognitive functions in elderly during normal aging and check if variables such as sex, age and education interfere in the profile of those abilities. METHODS: a prospective, traverse and observational study was accomplished with a sample constituted by 50 institutionalized elderly without neurological compromising and memory-related complaint, with age varying from 65 to 89 years and having an education grade varying from 0 to 15 years. The test used in this study was the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD). RESULTS: the feminine gender obtained significant difference in the Memory, Recall and Recognition tests. The age group: 65 - 75 years, obtained significant difference in the Recall tests. The range of education from 8 to 15 years obtained significant difference in the Boston tests and in the Fluency test. CONCLUSION: women had a better performance in the tests that involved memory. The elderly considered youths were better in the proof of memory related to recall. The individuals that had a better instruction grade obtained a better performance in the abilities that involved language.