2016
DOI: 10.4172/neuropsychiatry.1000133
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Anxiety in old age and dementia - implications for clinical and research practice

Abstract: While extensive research has been performed in relation to anxiety in general, there is a marked paucity of investigation on older adulthood, especially in relation to those individuals living with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia, with the majority of such studies clinically based and focusing upon 'formal' anxiety disorders. It is however becoming increasingly evident that the detrimental effects of anxiety are not limited to clinical anxiety disorders but can instead occur in response to anxiety… Show more

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“…Consequently, the S-Anxiety scale includes twenty items evaluating how the subject feels "right now, at this moment", while the T-Anxiety scale includes twenty items evaluating how the subject feels "generally". On a 4-point Likert scale (1-4), a score equal to 4 indicates the presence of a higher level of anxiety for ten S-Anxiety (3,4,6,7,9,12,13,14,17,18) and eleven T-Anxiety items (2,4,5,8,9,11,12,15,17,18,20). As for the remaining items, the scoring weights are reversed.…”
Section: Subjects and Proceduresmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Consequently, the S-Anxiety scale includes twenty items evaluating how the subject feels "right now, at this moment", while the T-Anxiety scale includes twenty items evaluating how the subject feels "generally". On a 4-point Likert scale (1-4), a score equal to 4 indicates the presence of a higher level of anxiety for ten S-Anxiety (3,4,6,7,9,12,13,14,17,18) and eleven T-Anxiety items (2,4,5,8,9,11,12,15,17,18,20). As for the remaining items, the scoring weights are reversed.…”
Section: Subjects and Proceduresmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Still, it is relevant to stress that any effect of anxiety on cognitive performance is highly relevant for both clinical- and research-related assessment involving older adults [ 14 ]. Indeed, anxiety may confound testing results and the physiological age-related cognitive decline may be exacerbated in anxious individuals.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In relation to these aims, we predicted that attentional control would be significantly poorer in older compared to younger adults, as determined by speed of performance on the STAC task; and that high levels of cognitive control would be significantly associated with high cognitive function, high cognitive reserve, and lower levels of perceived abnormal memory. We also investigated whether attentional control varied with respect to gender and sub-clinical levels of depression and anxiety [13,53,54].…”
Section: Study Rationalementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Anxiety and depression are treatable conditions thus once levels are low, 'normal' levels of slowing expected in healthy adults may be observed thus older adults no longer perceive as many memory changes. However this study recognised that depression and anxiety can confound RT studies [as discussed in Tales & Basoudan, 2016] thus levels were controlled for and were low and no relationship was found between neither anxiety nor depression and information processing speed nor was a relationship found between depression levels and subjective memory function.…”
Section: Subjective Memory Function In Older Adultsmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…These factors may have in fact confounded previous studies measuring information processing speed during healthy or pathological ageing but have failed to be included [Tales & Basoudan, 2016] particularly in association to subjective memory function Therefore it is important to note that current research measuring subjective memory function ensured that people tested were within the normal range thus reducing any effects of anxiety and depression to a minimum (discussed in more detail for each test in Chapters 2 to 5).…”
Section: Anxiety and Depressionmentioning
confidence: 99%