Evaluation of cognitive impairment in healthy older people
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Evaluation of cognitive impairment in healthy older people. The present work bases its foundation on the study of the general cognitive state of a group of healthy and non-institutionalized older adults, which was compared with a control group made up of young people, to verify whether or not cognitive functions experience the same decline with the advancement of age. It was also studied what happens with basic functions such as orientation, tonic attention and language and if these could remain relatively stable in healthy aging. Conclusions were reached about whether the educational level can exert a modulating effect on the execution of certain evaluated tasks. A neuropsychological battery called NEUROPSI was used with the participation of 17 healthy older adults divided into two groups based on years of schooling (5-9 years and 10-24 years). As a control group, 17 young people with higher education (10-24 years) participated. The results showed that, in the basic orientation function, as well as in more complex areas such as language and executive functions, it is observed that in some subtasks the evidenced performance of healthy older people, regardless of the level of schooling, is comparable to young people, this is not the case for attention and memory functions, where differences were found based on age and academic level. The results suggest that not all functions deteriorate at the same rate with aging so that some memory may be lost over the years, but other functions such as orientation and vocabulary remain intact.
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