Donostia Longitudinal Study has investigated the effect of non-pharmacological interventions in older adults without cognitive impairment, with mild cognitive impairment and with dementia. The current work is derived from this study and aims to go in depth into the linguistic profile of participants, as well as to perform a first empirical approximation to the effect of multi-type intervention in linguistic constructs.
Aging, cognitive impairment and language: Results from the Donostia Longitudinal Study
 
  Key words
 
 
  
   Aging
  
 
 
  
   cognitive impairment
  
 
 
  
   linguistic measures
  
 
 
  
   non-pharmacological interventions
  
 
 
  
   longitudinal study
  
 
Donostia Longitudinal Study has investigated the effect of non-pharmacological interventions in older adults <scp><neg>without</neg> <dis>cognitive impairment</dis></scp>, with <dis>mild cognitive impairment</dis> and with <dis>dementia</dis>.
The current work is derived from this study and aims to go in depth into the linguistic profile of participants, as well as to perform a first empirical approximation to the effect of multi-type intervention in linguistic constructs.
We have had a sample of 395 subjects divided between stages from 1 to 4 of the Global Deterioration Scale (GDS).
There have been three groups for each stage: one of them followed an intervention established according to a pattern of decline by stages; the second performed stimulation tasks without any theoretical background and the third did not receive any kind of intervention.
The results showed a better performance in participants with GDS 1 and 2 compared to those with <dis>cognitive impairment</dis>.
Between GDS 3 and 4, differences were found in vocabulary, writing and semantic fluency, but not in listening comprehension, reading comprehension and phonological fluency.
Regarding to the effect of the intervention, an improvement is observed for those variables that measure lexical-phonological processes in those participants who do <scp><neg>not</neg> suffer <dis>cognitive impairment</dis></scp>.
Donostia Longitudinal Study has investigated the effect of non-pharmacological interventions in older adults without cognitive impairment, with mild cognitive impairment and with dementia.
The current work is derived from this study and aims to go in depth into the linguistic profile of participants, as well as to perform a first empirical approximation to the effect of multi-type intervention in linguistic constructs.
We have had a sample of 395 subjects divided between stages from 1 to 4 of the Global Deterioration Scale (GDS).
There have been three groups for each stage: one of them followed an intervention established according to a pattern of decline by stages; the second performed stimulation tasks without any theoretical background and the third did not receive any kind of intervention.
The results showed a better performance in participants with GDS 1 and 2 compared to those with cognitive impairment.
Between GDS 3 and 4, differences were found in vocabulary, writing and semantic fluency, but not in listening comprehension, reading comprehension and phonological fluency.
Regarding to the effect of the intervention, an improvement is observed for those variables that measure lexical-phonological processes in those participants who do not suffer cognitive impairment.
Donostia Longitudinal Study has investigated the effect of non-pharmacological interventions in older adults <scp><neg>without</neg> <dis>cognitive impairment</dis></scp>, with <dis>mild cognitive impairment</dis> and with <dis>dementia</dis>. The current work is derived from this study and aims to go in depth into the linguistic profile of participants, as well as to perform a first empirical approximation to the effect of multi-type intervention in linguistic constructs.
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