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Memory complaints in young and elderly subjects

✍ Scribed by Christian Derouesné; Lucette Lacomblez; Stéphanie Thibault; Monique Leponcin

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
136 KB
Volume
14
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-6230

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✦ Synopsis

Objective. To compare the quantitative and qualitative aspects of memory complaints in cognitively normal subjects aged under and above 50 years.

Setting. A memory clinic located in a general hospital in a suburb of Paris oering direct access to subjects.

Design. Retrospective review of the ®les of consecutive patients who attended the clinic during one year.

Participants. Subjects were included if (a) they presented with memory complaints, (b) they had normal general cognitive functioning according to age and educational level, (c) they were devoid of present or past history of neurologic or psychiatric disorders.

Methods. Subjects rated the severity of memory complaints as major or minor and ®lled in a 8-item questionnaire assessing various memory diculties in everyday life. Relationship between severity of memory complaints and demographic data, memory performance and aective status was compared in 183 non-depressed, non-cognitively impaired healthy adults aged 50 years and over, and in 77 younger adults.

Results. Semiologic aspects and correlates of memory complaints were similar in younger and older adults. No close relationship was found between severity of memory complaints and memory performance. In both age groups, memory complaints were strongly related to aective status, mainly to the severity of anxious symptomatology. Memory complaints were related to gender in younger subjects, and to subjective assessment of well-being in older.

Conclusion. Memory complaints of elderly do not appear basically dierent from memory complaints of younger subjects. They constitute a complex psychological symptom unlikely to be explained by a few variables and cannot be reduced to the subjective counterpart of memory performance decline associated with age.

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