Posts Tagged ‘Mini-Mental Status Examination’

Age-Relat­ed Cog­ni­tive Decline May Not Be Inevitable (Web­MD): It is often assumed that a decrease in mem­o­ry and brain func­tion are inevitable parts of aging, but a new study of cen­te­nar­i­ans sug­gests oth­er­wise. Inves­ti­ga­tors found that despite the pres­ence of neu­ro­log­i­cal issues gen­er­al­ly asso­ci­at­ed with Alzheimer’s dis­ease (AD), many cen­te­nar­i­ans main­tained high lev­els of cognitive…