Relación entre Educación Envejecimiento y Deterioro Cognitivo en una Muestra de Adultos Mayores de Arequipa
- Abarca, Julio C.
- Chino Vilca, Brenda Nadia
- Llacho, M. L. V.
- Gonzales, Karina
- Mucho, Karina
- Vázquez, Raquel
- Cárdenas, Carol
- Soto, Marcio F.
ISSN: 0124-1265
Year of publication: 2008
Volume: 8
Issue: 2
Pages: 1-9
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista Neuropsicología, Neuropsiquiatría y Neurociencias
Abstract
The epidemiologic studies of cognitive decline show a clear relationship between the educational level and the presence of cognitive deterioration in aged populations. In our city there are not investigations that approach this problem for what we try to carry out a first approach to the consequences of the aging and the educational low-level on the cognitive processes. For this we evaluated 280 old age fellows of three districts of the city of Arequipa with the Mini Mental State Examination (Mini Mental) and a questionnaire of sociodemographic variables. Our results show a significant relationship between the age and the cognitive deterioration being observed in lower score in subject with more age; we also observe that those subject with more educational level show higher score. These first approaches to the cognitive deterioration in our city put of relief the importance of the implementation of effective political programs that allow the access to the education to most of our population.