{"title":"Message from the New Editor‐in‐Chief","authors":"M. Takeda","doi":"10.1111/psyg.12557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/psyg.12557","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20784,"journal":{"name":"Psychogeriatrics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/psyg.12557","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45605021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mayuko Senda, S. Terada, S. Takenoshita, S. Hayashi, Mayumi Yabe, Nao Imai, Makiko Horiuchi, N. Yamada
{"title":"Diagnostic utility of the Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination – III (ACE‐III), Mini‐ACE, Mini‐Mental State Examination, Montreal Cognitive Assessment, and Hasegawa Dementia Scale‐Revised for detecting mild cognitive impairment and dementia","authors":"Mayuko Senda, S. Terada, S. Takenoshita, S. Hayashi, Mayumi Yabe, Nao Imai, Makiko Horiuchi, N. Yamada","doi":"10.1111/psyg.12480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/psyg.12480","url":null,"abstract":"Early detection of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia is important to promptly start appropriate intervention. However, it is difficult to examine a patient using long and thorough cognitive tests in a general clinical setting. In this study, we aimed to investigate the diagnostic validity of the Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination ‐ III (ACE‐III), Mini‐ACE (M‐ACE), Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), Hasegawa Dementia Scale‐Revised (HDS‐R), and Mini‐Mental State Examination (MMSE) to identify MCI and dementia.","PeriodicalId":20784,"journal":{"name":"Psychogeriatrics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/psyg.12480","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42338406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wenzhe Qin, Lingzhong Xu, Long Sun, Jiajia Li, G. Ding, Qian Wang, Jiao Zhang, Hui Shao
{"title":"Association between frailty and life satisfaction among older people in Shandong, China: the differences in age and general self‐efficacy","authors":"Wenzhe Qin, Lingzhong Xu, Long Sun, Jiajia Li, G. Ding, Qian Wang, Jiao Zhang, Hui Shao","doi":"10.1111/psyg.12482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/psyg.12482","url":null,"abstract":"Frailty and other functional declines may be related to life satisfaction (LS) in the general elderly population. This study aims to investigate the association between frailty and LS among older individuals (age ≥60) and the impacts of age and general self‐efficacy on the relationships.","PeriodicalId":20784,"journal":{"name":"Psychogeriatrics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/psyg.12482","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43080436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Haussmann, C. Sauer, Amrei F E von Lieres Und Wilkau, M. Donix
{"title":"Education correction for neurocognitive testing","authors":"R. Haussmann, C. Sauer, Amrei F E von Lieres Und Wilkau, M. Donix","doi":"10.1111/psyg.12477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/psyg.12477","url":null,"abstract":"Comprehensive neuropsychological assessments, composed of specific tests targeting different aspects of cognition, are standard diagnostic tools to characterise the singleor multidomain impairments due to neurodegeneration, depression, or other brain disorders. Individual test results are frequently corrected for age-related changes in performance, and for the years of formal education, a proxy measure for cognitive reserve, that also comprises occupational attainment and intelligence. Education correction for neurocognitive tests could influence a physician’s decision how to diagnose and treat an individual, and has been used to reclassify demented and nondemented individuals in diagnostic assessments. Others point to education differences in European and American populations to explain heterogeneous performances in a common screening test for cognitive impairment. Both scenarios imply that we expect a well-educated person to perform better, reflected by a correlation between the years of formal education and cognitive abilities. We hypothesised that generational differences in education opportunities would challenge this assumption. In the 20th century, many societies experienced substantial changes in education opportunities, specifically regarding access to university education. This is reflected by an increasing percentage of university students in these populations and a strong shift in the ratio of men and women attending the institutions. In Germany for example, ‘universities of applied sciences’ have complemented the higher education sector since the 1970s, increasing tertiary education possibilities in addition to other quantitative changes in the education system. Furthermore, over the course of the last century, high tertiary education inequality due to social class effects has been substantially declining, specifically for women. We investigated 276 people (age range 44–94 years, median: 73 years, 124 male, 152 female), presenting for the first time to a German university memory clinic with cognitive impairment in the spectrum from subjective complaints to dementia. Written informed consent was obtained in accordance with the university’s ethics committee requirements. In addition to an interview (with caregiver, if available) and examination by an experienced physician, all patients underwent routine laboratory testing, magnetic resonance brain imaging and detailed neuropsychological assessments, in line with standard guidelines for how to evaluate cognitive impairment. We performed the statistical analyses using SPSS 24.0 (IBM, Armonk, NY, USA), with a significance level of P < 0.05, two-sided, for all analyses. Participants reporting university education (n = 101) compared with all other individuals (n = 175) were more likely to be older, male, and intrinsically motivated for diagnostic assessments, possibly reflecting the protective effect of cognitive reserve, gender differences in education opportunities, and greater dementia w","PeriodicalId":20784,"journal":{"name":"Psychogeriatrics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/psyg.12477","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46725404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}