Problemele dereglărilor cognitive la populația vârstnică

Abstract

Cognitive impairment is a major problem in complex geriatric assessment. Based on the geriatric assessment of 100 elderly people from urban and rural areas, aged between 65 and 95 years, from different localities in the Republic of Moldova, most of them being patients from the Geriatrics Department of the Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Health. The patients were evaluated according to the level of cognitive impairment. From the general population, the female sex predominates, living in rural areas, over 75 years old, having an average level of education and working as workers. In elderly patients, the presence of relatives suffering from nervous disorders predominates, which denotes the hereditary etiology, and the risk factors: alcohol, nicotine, trauma, mental overwork. Alzeimer is often associated with other pathologies, causing the syndrome of polypathologies. The progressive loss of short-term memory was identified as an early symptom, as well as a later symptom - the irreversible loss of long-term memory, with association with other cognitive disorders (aphazo-apraxo-agnosic).