Development of early detection system for dementia

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24650364
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Rehabilitation science/Welfare engineering
• Research Institution: National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology
• Principal Investigator: SHIMADA Hiroyuki 独立行政法人国立長寿医療研究センター, 生活機能賦活研究部, 部長 (00370974)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): MAKIZAKO Hyuma 国立長寿医療研究センター, 生活機能賦活研究部, 室長 (70510303) ; YOSHIDA Daisuke 国立長寿医療研究センター, 生活機能賦活研究部, 外来研究員 (90609041) ; DOI Takehiko 国立長寿医療研究センター, 生活機能賦活研究部, 外来研究員 (60589026) ; PARK Hyuntae 国立長寿医療研究センター, 老年学・社会科学研究センター長室, 外来研究員 (10506976) ; SUZUKI Takao 国立長寿医療研究センター, 研究所長 (30154545)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 軽度認知障害 / MCI / スクリーニング / 地域保健 / 介護予防 / 認知症 / 高齢者

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of the study was to develop the questionnaires for identifing the risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in the community living older adults. The questionneires about memory such as "forget where to put things", "forget the name of the closest friends", and "become forgetful" were associated with MCI. These results suggested that the questionneires about memory were important to identify the risk of dementia in the older people.

Free Research Field

老年学