NEUROLOGIC FUNCTION IN THE OPTIMALLY HEALTHY OLDEST-OLD - NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION

Authors
HOWIESON DB HOLM LA KAYE JA OKEN BS HOWIESON J
Citation
Db. Howieson et al., NEUROLOGIC FUNCTION IN THE OPTIMALLY HEALTHY OLDEST-OLD - NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION, Neurology, 43(10), 1993, pp. 1882-1886
Citations number
37
Categorie Soggetti
Clinical Neurology
Journal title
Neurology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00283878
Volume
43
Issue
10
Year of publication
1993
Pages
1882 - 1886
Database
ISI
SICI code
0028-3878(1993)43:10<1882:NFITOH>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
We examined cognition on a wide range of standardized neuropsychologic al tests in two groups of optimally healthy, elderly volunteers. One w as composed of community-dwelling, functionally independent individual s aged 84 years and older, and the other group was nearly 20 years you nger. The effect of aging was greatest on visual perceptual and constr uctional tasks rather than on memory tasks. Many cognitive functions w ere relatively well preserved in the optimally healthy oldest old.