OBJECTIVE The number of older patients with chronic schizophrenia is increasing. There is a need for empirically validated psychotherapy interventions for these patients. Cognitive behavioral social skills training teaches cognitive and behavioral coping techniques, social functioning skills, problem solving, and compensatory aids for neurocognitive impairments. The authors compared treatment a...

PURPOSE The aims of this study were to reliably assess a range of social-cognitive functioning in frail seniors and to examine the association between measures of social cognition and nurses' ratings of residents' social functioning in a nursing home. DESIGN AND METHODS Forty nursing home residents with and without cognitive impairment completed 11 social cognition tasks on two occasions afte...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Social functioning is impaired in approximately two-thirds of stroke patients of vocational age, even several months after a first ever mild to moderate stroke. The known predictors of social functioning are initial stroke severity, anxiety and depression, and the Mini-Mental State Evaluation, suggesting that cognitive deficits contribute to post-stroke social dysfunctioning...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the extent to which relationships between apolipoprotein E, cognitive functioning, and survival in people aged 60 to 80 persist into advanced old age. DESIGN Examine the effect of apolipoprotein E genotypes on baseline cognitive functioning, cognitive decline over 5 years, and survival in a cohort of 1,551 nonagenarians. SETTING The Danish 1905 birth cohort. PARTICI...

Abstract We were interested in whether the covid-19 pandemic affects cognitive functioning addition to emotional responses. To this end, we applied four questions related everyday activities that inevitably involve fluid abilities, e.g., problems concentrating, remembering, and switching between different mental activities. Respondents self-assessed their abilities during compared period before...

BACKGROUND Declines in cognitive functioning are a normal part of aging that can affect daily functioning and quality of life. This study will examine the impact of an exercise training program, and a combined exercise and cognitive training program, on the cognitive and physical functioning of older adults. METHODS/DESIGN Fit Bodies, Fine Minds is a randomized, controlled trial. Community-dw...