International psychogeriatrics最新文献

{"title":"Adding to \"The effect of study partner characteristics on the reporting of neuropsychiatric symptoms across the neurocognitive spectrum\".","authors":"Amnuay Kleebayoon, Viroj Wiwanitkit","doi":"10.1016/j.inpsyc.2024.100028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inpsyc.2024.100028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14368,"journal":{"name":"International psychogeriatrics","volume":"37 2","pages":"100028"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143630435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Factors associated with loneliness in a national study among persons 80 years and older in India in 2017-2018.","authors":"Supa Pengpid, Karl Peltzer, André Hajek, Razak M Gyasi","doi":"10.1016/j.inpsyc.2024.100019","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.inpsyc.2024.100019","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>This study's objective was to determine the variables linked to loneliness in Indian adults 80 years of age and above (as well as stratified by sex).</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Cross-sectional survey of the 2017-2018 Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI) SETTING: Community-dwelling nationally representative population in India.</p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>The analytic sample included 3163 community-dwelling individuals ≥ 80 years (excluding proxy interviews).</p><p><strong>Measurements: </strong>A single item was used to measure loneliness. We employed multiple linear regressions (with social, health, and demographic variables as explanatory variables).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Regressions found that higher food insecurity, higher perceived discrimination, higher functional disability, female sex, and lower life satisfaction increased the odds of higher loneliness among the oldest-old. The sex-stratified analysis found similar results.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Several demographic, health, and social-related factors were identified as being associated with higher loneliness. These factors can be targeted in addressing the onset and progression of loneliness in later life, particularly among the oldest old.</p>","PeriodicalId":14368,"journal":{"name":"International psychogeriatrics","volume":"37 2","pages":"100019"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143630442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Psychometric properties, factor structure, and functional correlates of the PTSD checklist for DSM-5 in a U.S. national sample of older veterans.","authors":"Joan M Cook, Michelle J Bovin, Mia Maria Günak, Karen A Lawrence, Robert H Pietrzak","doi":"10.1016/j.inpsyc.2024.100027","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.inpsyc.2024.100027","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To examine the psychometric properties of an assessment measure for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that corresponds with the current version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fifth Edition (DSM-5) in older adults.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Cross-sectional study.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>Nationally representative web-based survey (National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study; NHRVS) between November 18, 2019 and March 8, 2020.</p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>A total of 3001 veterans aged 60 years and older (mean age=73.2 years) MEASUREMENTS: PTSD symptoms were assessed using the PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>PCL-5 scores demonstrated excellent internal consistency, and strong convergent and discriminant validity. Veterans who met criteria for probable PTSD and subthreshold PTSD had higher rates of childhood and adult trauma exposure than those who did not meet criteria for either of these groups. A recently proposed 8-factor model provided the best fit to item-level PCL-5 data, with dysphoric (i.e., anhedonia, dysphoric arousal) symptoms having the strongest most consistent associations with measures of functioning.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This is the first known study to examine the psychometric properties of the PCL-5 among older veterans. Results indicate that the PCL-5 is a reliable and valid instrument for use with community-dwelling older veterans. The finding that dysphoric symptoms of PTSD were most consistently linked to measures of functioning underscores the importance of targeting these symptoms as part of prevention, assessment, and treatment efforts in this population.</p>","PeriodicalId":14368,"journal":{"name":"International psychogeriatrics","volume":"37 2","pages":"100027"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143630055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Computerized functional skills training and the importance of early errors during training.","authors":"Dylan J Jester, Jeonghyun Shin","doi":"10.1016/j.inpsyc.2024.100024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inpsyc.2024.100024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14368,"journal":{"name":"International psychogeriatrics","volume":"37 2","pages":"100024"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143630438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Associations of depressive symptoms and cortisol with cognitive performance among memory clinic patients.","authors":"Dickson Olusegun Adedeji, Jasper Holleman, Lena Johansson, Ingemar Kåreholt, Malin Aspö, Göran Hagman, Ulrika Akenine, Marieclaire Overton, Alina Solomon, Miia Kivipelto, Shireen Sindi, Simona F Sacuiu","doi":"10.1016/j.inpsyc.2024.100009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.inpsyc.2024.100009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Test the hypothesis that depressive symptoms are associated with cognitive performance and that cortisol levels may explain this association independently of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) biomarker levels.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Longitudinal observational study.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>Memory clinic, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.</p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>Consecutive patients (n = 162) who agreed to take part in the Cortisol and Stress in AD (Co-STAR) study during 2014-2017 and had data available for variables of interest.</p><p><strong>Measurements: </strong>Participants rated their depressive symptoms using the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) and collected diurnal salivary cortisol samples at home. Cognitive performance was assessed by standardized cognitive tests in the following domains: memory, working memory, processing speed, perceptual reasoning, and general cognitive function. Dementia, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and subjective cognitive decline (SCD) were diagnosed as part of the clinical work-up. We determined the associations between GDS and cognitive domain scores using linear regressions, including cortisol levels as covariates. We also tested if cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) AD biomarkers amyloid β42 (Aβ42) and tau proteins modified these associations.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The GDS score was negatively associated with performance in working memory and processing speed, independently of cortisol levels. These associations were no longer significant after introducing AD biomarkers as covariates. Baseline GDS score was not associated with change in memory or processing speed at follow-up.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The underlying amyloid pathology may affect the association between depressive symptoms and cognitive performance in memory clinic patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":14368,"journal":{"name":"International psychogeriatrics","volume":"37 2","pages":"100009"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7617257/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143630436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Associations of neurocognitive functioning with behavioral pathology in older adults.","authors":"Dilip V Jeste","doi":"10.1016/j.inpsyc.2025.100047","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.inpsyc.2025.100047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14368,"journal":{"name":"International psychogeriatrics","volume":" ","pages":"100047"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143407943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fostering an active daily life: An ethnographic study unravelling the mechanisms of Green Care Farms as innovative long-term care environment for people with dementia.","authors":"Katharina Rosteius, Bram de Boer, Gijs Steinmann, Hilde Verbeek","doi":"10.1016/j.inpsyc.2024.100017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.inpsyc.2024.100017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Green Care Farms (GCFs) are gaining attention as innovative dementia care environment. Compared with regular nursing homes, first studies suggested a more active daily life, more social interaction and a higher quality of life of GCF residents. Regular facilities aiming to redesign and implement GCF elements might be hindered to do so by a lack of space for meadows or regulations prohibiting animals. Therefore, this study explored the underlying mechanisms by which GCFs may generate the positive effects.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>This study is an observational, explorative study using multiple methods.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>One GCF and one traditional nursing home aiming to implement GCF elements.</p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>Residents, family members, staff, managers, and other involved individuals of the two nursing homes.</p><p><strong>Measurements: </strong>Ethnographic observations (n = 52 days), semi-structured interviews (n = 67) and a focus group with experts from various disciplines were conducted. Data was analyzed thematically and triangulated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We identified six possible mechanisms of GCFs encouraging an active daily life. These are: 1) stimulating the senses, 2) promoting engagement in purposeful activities tailored to the individual, 3) creating a community, 4) promoting freedom and autonomy in a responsible way, 5) integrating the vision in all actions, and 6) continuously transforming to carry out the vision in practice.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our results provide first insights into environmental working mechanisms, which are relatively generic and have the potential to be transferred to other settings. Hence, this study provides other care organizations with guidance on implementing the care vision of GCFs in their local context.</p><p><strong>What is already known: </strong>WHAT THIS PAPER ADDS.</p>","PeriodicalId":14368,"journal":{"name":"International psychogeriatrics","volume":"37 2","pages":"100017"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143630444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Suicidal ideation among informal caregivers of older adults: The role of family values, care stigma, and care gains.","authors":"Larissa Zwar, Hans-Helmut König, André Hajek","doi":"10.1016/j.inpsyc.2025.100052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inpsyc.2025.100052","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>This study aims to analyze the association between care-specific psychosocial factors in terms of familism, care stigma, caregiver burden, and gains with suicidal ideation of informal caregivers of older adults in Germany.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Data from the Attitudes Towards Informal Caregivers Project (ATTIC) of 433 informal caregivers of adults aged ≥ 60 years was used to analyze the research question. The Internalized Caregiver Stigma Scale was used to measure the internalized attitudes and behavior of informal caregivers regarding care provision for older adults, suicidal ideation was measuring passive suicide thoughts, care gains were measured with positive aspects of care scale and familism was measured with the short attitudinal familism scale. Linear regression analysis with robust standard errors were calculated and adjusted for contextual and personal factors (e.g., co-residence, personality, social support).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Stronger beliefs in negative internalized care stigma were associated with higher frequency of suicide thoughts, while stronger positive internalized care stigma, familism, and care gains were not significantly associated with suicidal ideation. The associations were also found in additional analysis with a log-transformed outcome of suicidal ideation and in analyses excluding mental health as covariate (except for burden, which was significantly associated with suicidal ideation).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Care-specific psychosocial factors in terms of negative care stigma are important to the risk for suicidal ideation. Thus, changing negative thoughts, evaluations and expectations about informal care and its performance could be helpful to prevent informal caregivers experiencing (high levels of) suicidal ideation.</p>","PeriodicalId":14368,"journal":{"name":"International psychogeriatrics","volume":" ","pages":"100052"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143515695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How do caregivers successfully cope with behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia? A web-based, preliminary analysis using a hybrid approach.","authors":"Katsuo Yamanaka, Dai Noguchi, Shunsuke Sato, Naoko Kosugi, Hideki Kanemoto, Kenji Yoshiyama, Manabu Ikeda, Hiroaki Kazui","doi":"10.1016/j.inpsyc.2025.100050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inpsyc.2025.100050","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>There has been no systematic analysis of coping strategies for behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) using large-scale cumulative data. We preliminarily examined the characteristics of successful and unsuccessful coping strategies for BPSD.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>We employed a deductive and inductive analysis (hybrid approach) of the data derived from \"Ninchisho Chienowa-net,\" a web-based system that collects caregivers' coping strategies for BPSD. Antecedent control procedure and consequence manipulation in applied behavior analysis (ABA) were used as theory-driven codes for deductive classification.</p><p><strong>Cases: </strong>We targeted 1049 cases except \"others\" among BPSD's categories submitted from January 2016 to January 2019, and finally, 1027 were selected.</p><p><strong>Measurements: </strong>Subsequently, nine sub-codes of coping strategies were inductively generated through a trial classification in the first BPSD category, applying these to remaining categories.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Success frequencies varied significantly across coping strategy sub-codes: strategies \"assisting the person in performing other activities,\" \"addressing setting events,\" \"listening to the person and accepting her/his challenges,\" and \"multi-coping strategies\" had higher success frequencies than expected. Conversely, \"explaining reality\" and \"inhibiting BPSD\" had higher failure frequencies than expected. As for the BPSD category \"problems due to forgetting,\" \"prompting the person to do an appropriate behavior\" was more successful than other coping strategies.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This investigation systematically elucidated the efficacy of various coping strategies, delineating successful ones from those that were not. The discerned patterns across all categories of BPSD and within each individual category will provide valuable insights for caregivers.</p>","PeriodicalId":14368,"journal":{"name":"International psychogeriatrics","volume":" ","pages":"100050"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143501310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Longitudinal association between creative arts participation with cognitive function in late life.","authors":"Darina V Petrovsky, Abeer M Mobarki, Justine S Sefcik, Zahra Rahemi, Juanita-Dawne R Bacsu, Matthew Lee Smith, Bei Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.inpsyc.2025.100048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inpsyc.2025.100048","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Examine relationships between arts participation in high school and later life, cognition, and cognitive change among older adults in the United States.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Longitudinal retrospective SETTING: Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) including the Life History Mail Surveys (LHMS) and Consumption and Activities Mail Survey (CAMS).</p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>A sample of HRS respondents with cognition data from Wave 3 (1996) through Wave 14 (2018). We merged LHMS and CAMS responses (2017 and 2019) about high school arts participation, eliminating respondents < 50 years of age, without cognitive data in the last three waves, or with normal cognition following previously reported dementia.</p><p><strong>Measurements: </strong>Respondents were categorized into 4 groups for musical and for visual arts): (1) lifelong learners; (2) high school learners; (3) current learners; and (4) no interest. Cognitive function was measured as a continuous summary score on a 27-point cognitive battery of items in the Langa-Weir Classification total Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status, TICS.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Musical arts participation at time of the survey was associated with a slower rate of cognitive decline in the entire sample (3505 participants in musical and 3507 in visual arts) and the War Babies cohort. Those who participated in musical arts at the time of the survey and while in high school experienced a slower rate of cognitive decline in the AHEAD-CODA cohort only. No relationships were found between cognition and times of visual arts participation.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Some types of arts participation at different periods of life may benefit cognition later in life.</p>","PeriodicalId":14368,"journal":{"name":"International psychogeriatrics","volume":" ","pages":"100048"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143476619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}