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Psychiatric Morbidity among Elderly People Living in Old Age Homes and in the Community: A Comparative Study [PDF]

, 2012
Background: Disorders such as depression, anxiety, cognitive and psychotic disorders have a high prevalence among elderly. There is some preliminary evidence that life in old age homes is perceived by inmates as more supportive, though the issue is not ...
Majgi, SM, Mathew, J, Nagaraj, AKM, Nanjegowda, RB, Purushothama, SM   +4 more
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The classification of mild cognitive impairment or healthy ageing improves when including practice effects derived from a semantic verbal fluency task

Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring
INTRODUCTION Practice effects are an improvement in task performance with repeated testing. Their absence may indicate compromised learning and may help discriminate healthy from pathological ageing.
Felix Dörr, Loris Grandjean, Johannes Tröger, Jessica Peter   +3 more
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Happiness, positive emotions, and subjective well-being in dementia

Frontiers in Neurology
Research on non-cognitive features of dementia traditionally focusses on neuropsychiatric symptoms and challenging behavior and thus on negative aspects of the disease. Despite the clinical observation that many patients frequently report subjective well-
Carolin Miklitz, Carolin Miklitz, Klaus Fliessbach, Klaus Fliessbach, Cornelia McCormick, Cornelia McCormick   +5 more
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Modelling Intermediate Age and Old Stellar Populations in the Infrared [PDF]

, 1997
We have investigated the spectro-photometric properties of the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars and their contribution to the integrated infrared emission in simple stellar populations (SSP).
Bressan, A., Granato, G. L., Silva, L.
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Housing markets and independence in old age: expanding the opportunities [PDF]

, 2011
This report highlights the benefits of specialised private retirement accommodation and recommends a number of simple policy changes at no cost to the public purse to help increase its supply and address the challenges of housing an ageing ...
Ball, Michael, Blanchette, R., Nanda, Anupam, Wyatt, Peter, Yeh, J.   +4 more
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Education moderates the effect of tDCS on episodic memory performance in cognitively impaired patients

Brain Stimulation, 2020
Christine Krebs, Stefan Klöppel, Bernhard Heimbach, Jessica Peter   +3 more
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The compression of deaths above the mode [PDF]

Kannisto (2001) has shown that as the frequency distribution of ages at death has shifted to the right, the age distribution of deaths above the modal age has become more compressed.
A. Roger Thatcher, Jean-Marie Robine, Shiro Horiuchi, Siu Lan Karen Cheung   +3 more
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Age and length composition of Columbia Basin chinook, sockeye, and coho salmon at Bonneville Dam in 2002 [PDF]

, 2002
In 2002, representative samples of migrating Columbia Basin chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), sockeye (O. nerka), and coho salmon (O. kisutch) adult populations were collected at Bonneville Dam.
Fryer, Jeffrey K., Kelsey, Denise A.
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Company Annuity Plans and Federal Old-Age Insurance [PDF]

, 1936
Folsom, M. B.
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Biased Risk Perceptions of Longevity and Disability in Old Age [PDF]

Rational learning theories postulate that information channels and cognitive biases such as individual optimism may influence an individuals assessment of the risk of undesired events, especially with regard to those that have a cumulative nature.
Joan Costa Font
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