The role of psychological research in assessment of cognitive decline among the examined elderly patients

M. G Dashina; N. I Karachentseva; N. N Timoshnikova

doi:10.17816/MSER35835

Medical and Social Expert Evaluation and Rehabilitation ›› 2013, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (4) : 53 -56. DOI: 10.17816/MSER35835

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The role of psychological research in assessment of cognitive decline among the examined elderly patients

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The article focuses on improving the efficiency and quality of health and social assessment of middle-aged and old people in the bureau of the mixed profile. The necessity of an experimental psychological diagnosis for a comprehensive, integrated examination of these patients and its influence on the clinical expert diagnosis and expert determination. Given the current definition of cognitive functions, and classification of cognitive impairment that is used in clinical neurology. Methods and techniques used by us for a psychological examination were indicated, the features of cognitive impairment in the elderly with cardiovascular and degenerative diseases of the brain in comparison with the «successful» aging were analyzed. Significant impairments were divided to make expert decisions during conduction of medical and social expertise (patients with lesions of the brain) and non-significant (reversible form, age-related decline).

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elderly / cognitive impairment / diagnosis / medical and social assessment / experimental psychological examination

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M. G Dashina, N. I Karachentseva, N. N Timoshnikova. The role of psychological research in assessment of cognitive decline among the examined elderly patients. Medical and Social Expert Evaluation and Rehabilitation, 2013, 16(4): 53-56 DOI:10.17816/MSER35835

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