The Relationship Between Depression and Cognitive Deterioration in Elderly Persons

Abstract

The objective of this research is to describe the relationship between depressive disorder and cognitive deterioration in residentialized elderly people. This is a descriptive and correlational study with 70 elderly. The variables have been assessed with a Psychosocial Variables Questionnaire, CAMCOG and GDS. Depression was significantly correlated with cognitive level in the non-assisted elderly sample (r=0.471, p=0.004). Participants’ age is negatively associated with the score obtained in the CAMCOG of non-assisted sample (r=-0.352, p=0.038). Depression is more frequent in institutions that care for older people when they are more dependent.

Improvement of the Quality of Life in Aging by Stimulating Autobiographical Memory

“…The instruments used both in the pre-treatment phase (first evaluation), and in the post-treatment phase (second evaluation) were the MoCA [ 27 , 28 , 29 ], the MEC [ 30 ], the GDS-30 [ 31 , 32 , 33 ], the LSI-A [ 1 , 34 ] and the AMT [ 35 ], specific memories for positive stimuli (EPOS), and for negative stimuli (ENEG).…”