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Older adults reporting elevated state, trait, or clinical anxiety symptoms have been shown to demonstrate poorer global cognitive function on screening assessments (Schutz, Moser, Bishop, & Ellingrod, 2005) as well as poorer performance on challenging neuropsychological tests (Hogan, 2003).
Anxiety symptoms in amnestic mild cognitive impairment are associated with medial temporal atrophy and predict conversion to Alzheimer disease. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry , 23 ( 5 ), 466 – 476 .
22 sty 2010 · However, the detection and diagnosis of anxiety disorders in late life is complicated by medical comorbidity, cognitive decline, and changes in life circumstances that do not face younger age groups. Furthermore, the expression and report of anxiety symptoms may differ with age.
15 lut 2008 · This article critically reviews evidence of more prevalent anxiety in cognitively impaired older adults, elevated anxiety related to poorer cognitive performance, and more severe anxiety symptoms predicting future cognitive decline.
Cognitively intact older adults with perceived memory decline are at greater risk for current as well as future anxiety symptoms. Keywords: anxiety, memory complaints, longitudinal, coordinated analysis. Go to: Introduction.
This article critically reviews evidence of more prevalent anxiety in cognitively impaired older adults, elevated anxiety related to poorer cognitive performance, and more severe anxiety symptoms predicting future cognitive decline.
Introduction. In the United States, a nationally representative survey, the National Comorbidity Survey Replication, has estimated the lifetime prevalence of any anxiety disorder as 16.6% and 9.6% among women and men aged 65 years and older, respectively ( Gum, King-Kallimanis, & Kohn, 2009 ).
