OR03-4 Five months treatment with a long-acting GHRH analog improves cognition in healthy older men and women and in patients with mild cognitive impairment

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. S8
Author(s):  
G.R. Merriam ◽  
M.V. Vitiello ◽  
S.M. Barsness ◽  
S. Borson ◽  
S.D. Friedman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Mild Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Older Men ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Long Acting ◽  
Older Men And Women

scholarly journals The Association Between Loneliness and Cognitive Impairment among Older Men and Women in China: A Nationwide Longitudinal Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (16) ◽  
pp. 2877 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zi Zhou ◽  
Fanzhen Mao ◽  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Samuel D. Towne ◽  
Ping Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Older Men ◽  
Elderly Men ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Multiple Imputations ◽  
Healthy Longevity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Older Men And Women

We aimed to investigate the association between loneliness and cognitive impairment among older men and women in China. Data for 6898 eligible participants aged 65 years and older were derived from the latest two waves (2008/2009 and 2011/2012) of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey. A logistic regression analysis was performed to determine whether the association between loneliness at baseline and the risk of cognitive impairment at follow-up varied by sex, with adjustment for social-demographic variables, social isolation, lifestyles, and health status. The rates of baseline loneliness and follow-up cognitive impairment were both higher among women than men. Loneliness at baseline was significantly associated with cognitive impairment at follow-up among elderly men (OR = 1.30; 95% CI 1.01–1.69), even after adjusting for potential confounding variables; however, a similar association was not observed among elderly women (OR = 0.98; 95% CI 0.81–1.19). Multiple imputations were applied to address missing data. Although elderly women more frequently reported feelings of loneliness, the impact of loneliness on cognitive impairment was significant among elderly men but not elderly women. Interventions designed to decrease the incidence of loneliness may be particularly beneficial for the reduction of cognitive impairment among elderly Chinese men.

ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SUBJECTIVE SLEEP QUALITY AND INCIDENT COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT IN COMMUNITY-DWELLING OLDER MEN AND WOMEN

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. S2
Author(s):  
Olivier Potvin ◽  
Dominique Lorrain ◽  
Hélène Forget ◽  
Micheline Dubé ◽  
Sébastien Grenier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Older Men ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Subjective Sleep Quality ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Subjective Sleep ◽  
Older Men And Women

Sleep quality and sleepiness repercussion on cognitive impairment in community-dwelling older men and women

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. e63
Author(s):  
B. Gallego-Ariza ◽  
I. Cabrera-Martos ◽  
L. Cerón-Lorente ◽  
M. Flores-Barba ◽  
I. Torres-Sánchez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Older Men ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Older Men And Women

The Case of Thematic Tests Adapted to Older Adults

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benoît Verdon
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Older Men ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Projective Tests ◽  
New Material ◽  
Older Men And Women ◽  
Latent Content

Since the 1950s, the growing interest of clinicians in using projective tests to study normal or pathological aging processes has led to the creation of several thematic tests for older adults. This development reflects their authors’ belief that the TAT is not suitable to the concerns and anxieties of elderly persons. The new material thus refers explicitly to situations related to age; it aims to enable older persons to express needs they cannot verbalize during consultations. The psychodynamic approach to thematic testing is based on the differentiation between the pictures’ manifest and latent content, eliciting responses linked to mental processes and issues the respondent is unaware of. The cards do not necessarily have to show aging characters to elicit identification: The situations shown in the pictures are linked to loss, rivalry, helplessness, and renunciation, all issues elderly respondents can identify with and that lead them to express their mental fragilities and resources. The article first explains the principles underlying four of these thematic tests, then develops several examples of stories told for card 3BM of the TAT, thus showing the effectiveness of this tool for the understanding and differentiation of loss-related issues facing older men and women.

Clyde Warrior, 1939–1968

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiffany Hale
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Older Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Poor People's Campaign ◽  
Organizational Leader ◽  
Martin Luther King ◽  
Older Men And Women

To identify Clyde Warrior as an intellectual subverts prevailing notions of intellectualism. We often think of intellectuals as older men and women whose major contributions are revealed late in life, once the passions of youth have been tempered by experience. Warrior was not this. People frequently imagine intellectuals as existing in isolation, insulated from the demands of regular folk. Warrior was not this either. He was a Ponca, born on the reservation and raised with the influence of his grandparents and community. He was also a renowned singer and powwow fancy dancer, as well as a college student, an organizational leader, a husband, and father of two daughters. Warrior’s political consciousness grew out of the deep connections he maintained to his rural Ponca roots, but he took care to educate himself about the problems affecting Native Americans across the United States as well as colonized peoples globally. As an Oklahoman, he was attuned to race relations in the South and empathized with the struggles of Africans and African Americans. His approach to indigenous political struggles was shaped and informed, for example, by his early and active participation with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign.

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