| Literature DB >> 20694873 |
April D Thames1, Michelle S Kim, Brian W Becker, Jessica M Foley, Lindsay J Hines, Elyse J Singer, Robert K Heaton, Steven A Castellon, Charles H Hinkin.
Abstract
This study examined the effects of aging and cognitive impairment on medication and finance management in an HIV sample. We observed main effects of age (older < younger) and neuropsychological impairment on functional task performance. Interactions between age and cognition demonstrated that older impaired individuals performed significantly more poorly than all other comparison groups. There were no relationships between laboratory performance and self-reported medication and finance management. The interaction of advancing age and cognitive impairment may confer significant functional limitations for HIV individuals that may be better detected by performance-based measures of functional abilities rather than patient self-report.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20694873 PMCID: PMC3616485 DOI: 10.1080/13803395.2010.499357
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Exp Neuropsychol ISSN: 1380-3395 Impact factor: 2.475