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Working with Korean American Families
Published in Gwen Yeo, Linda A. Gerdner, Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, Ethnicity and the Dementias, 2018
Banghwa Lee Casado, Sang E. Lee, Michin Hong
As family members are most likely to notice changes in their family’s cognition and behavior, screening with family members can be a viable way to detect dementia in older adults. One of the tools available to be used with caregivers is the Informant Questionnaire for Cognitive Decline in the Elderly (IQCODE) (Jorm, 1994), a questionnaire designed to assess cognitive decline in older adults based on the informants’ observations. It has been translated and tested as a valid dementia screening tool for use with Koreans (Lee et al., 2005). Another available screening tool that could be used with informants is the Korean Dementia Screening Questionnaire (Yang, 2002). Yang has reported that this screening tool is not influenced by education level, age, or sex, and is a highly valid and reliable tool to screen early-stage dementia among Koreans.
Functional Assessment and Measures
Published in K. Rao Poduri, Geriatric Rehabilitation, 2017
Cornell scale for depression in dementia: An alternative to patient testing for dementia is a structured family report using the Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly (IQCDE),60 which, unlike the MMSE, is not affected by a patient’s educational level or premorbid intelligence. Combining these tools can increase the sensitivity of the screening process and identify additional patients in the early stages of dementia.
Association between plasma trimethylamine-N-oxide and cognitive impairment in patients with transient ischemic attack
Published in Neurological Research, 2023
Lufeng Wang, Xiaopeng Zhan, Li Jiang, Guangyu Xu, Yiwen Bao, Junlang Wang, Shaohua Qv, Jie Yang, Dongya Huang
The inclusion criteria were as follows: (i) age ≥18, (ii) diagnosed with TIA within 7 days after onset and no definite infarction on diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) during the entire period of follow-up, (iii) complete data about neuropsychological test results 3 months after onset, and (iv) data available for other variables of interest. The exclusion criteria were as follows: (i) participants with a history of stroke events, cerebral hemorrhage, traumatic brain injury, or psychiatric disorders known to affect cognitive function, (ii) diagnosed with cognitive decline before the onset of the current TIA (Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly (IQCODE) was applied to help screen the preexisting cognitive decline in the Chinese elderly and scoring 3.4 or more was considered preexisting cognitive decline), and (iii) patients with difficulties in hearing, speaking and comprehension could not complete the neuropsychological tests.
COVID-19, loneliness, social isolation and risk of dementia in older people: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the relevant literature
Published in International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 2022
Carlo Lazzari, Marco Rabottini
The Mini-Mental State Examination (Folstein et al. 1975) was often found in the assessments. Another cognitive test was a short version of the Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly IQCODE (Jorm 1994), consisting of a 26-item questionnaire with answers on a 5-point Likert scale (from ‘much improved’ to ‘much worse’). The questionnaire asks a person who is close to the target subject to assess him or her on how s/he was at the moment compared to ten years before the assessment on different aspects of life such as recognising, remembering, recalling, dexterity skills, recent and historical memory, handling money, decision making, overall use of intelligence (Jorm 1994). Another test was the Three Tasks from the modified Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICSm) assessed immediate and delayed recall of 10 words, serial seven subtraction, and backward counting (Fong et al. 2009). Other tests were the Geriatric Mental State (GMS) (Copeland et al. 1988); Automated Geriatric Examination for Computer Assisted Taxonomy (AGECAT) (Copeland et al. 1988), Cambridge Mental Disorders of the Elderly Examination (CAMDEX), which also contains a neuropsychological battery specific for mild forms of dementia (Roth et al. 1986). The Activities of Daily Living (ADL) comprises the basic actions that involve caring for oneself and the body, including personal care, mobility, and eating (Mlinac and Feng 2016).
Screening for cognitive impairment with the montreal cognitive assessment at six months after stroke and transient ischemic attack
Published in Neurological Research, 2021
Xiaoling Liao, Lijun Zuo, Yuesong Pan, Xianglong Xiang, Xia Meng, Hao Li, Xingquan Zhao, Yilong Wang, Jiong Shi, Yongjun Wang
The inclusion criteria for patients are age of 18 years or older, with an ischemic stroke or TIA within 7 days. Patients’ stroke/TIA is diagnosed according to World Health Organization criteria (acute onset of neurological deficit, persisting for >24 hours in case of stroke, or for <24 hours in case of TIA), and confirmed with brain CT or MRI. All patients in this study were asked to complete the MRI examinations during hospitalization. If the patient has evidence of associated acute focal infarction on imaging, he or she will be diagnosed as a stroke rather than a TIA, even if neurological deficit persisting for <24 hours [11,12]. During hospitalization, all stroke patients are invited to follow-up at the stroke clinic after their discharge. Patients who have stroke mimics (i.e., seizures, migraine), illiteracy, history of dementia, aphasia, hemispatial neglect, disturbance of consciousness or limb dyskinesia and any major mental conditions that may impede cognitive assessments are excluded. The 316 consecutive stroke patients comprise 301 patients with acute ischemic stroke and 15 patients with TIA. Patients with a severe cognitive disorder before stroke (diagnosed by the Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive decline in the Elderly (IQCODE)) were excluded.