Publications by authors named "Gabriela Rojas-de-la-Torre"
Objective: To describe, in a Mexican sample of urban and rural residents older than 65 years, with and without dementia, the frequency and severity of neuropsychiatric symptoms.
Material And Methods: This work is part of the multi-center, epidemiological study carried out by the 10/66 Dementia Research Group, with 1,003 subjects from an urban region and 1,000 subjects from a rural region. Neuropsychiatric symptoms were assessed with the abbreviated version of the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI-Q).
Background: The proportion of the global population aged 60 and over is increasing, more so in Latin America than any other region. Depression is common among elderly people and an important cause of disability worldwide.
Aims: To estimate the prevalence and correlates of late-life depression, associated disability and access to treatment in five locations in Latin America.
Background: 1) To report site-specific normative values by age, sex and educational level for four components of the 10/66 Dementia Research Group cognitive test battery; 2) to estimate the main and interactive effects of age, sex, and educational level by site; and 3) to investigate the effect of site by region and by rural or urban location.
Methods: Population-based cross-sectional one phase catchment area surveys were conducted in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Peru, Mexico, China and India. The protocol included the administration of the Community Screening Instrument for Dementia (CSI 'D', generating the COGSCORE measure of global function), and the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD) verbal fluency (VF), word list memory (WLM, immediate recall) and recall (WLR, delayed recall) tests.