Mild Cognitive Impairment and Everyday Function: Evidence of Reduced Speed in Performing Instrumental Activities of Daily Living
American Journal of Geriatric PsychiatryPublished 1 May 2008
Virginia G. Wadley, Ozioma C. Okonkwo, Michael Crowe, Lesley A. Ross
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Abstract
These results suggest that slower speed of task performance is an important component and perhaps an early marker of functional change in MCI that would not be detected using traditional measurements of daily function. Future research should address the question of whether performance-based functional measures, as well as simple queries regarding whether functional activities take longer than usual to complete, may improve the prediction of future cognitive decline and disease progression among those individuals in whom MCI represents impending dementia.
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