Publications by authors named "Sara van de Schraaf"
Objectives: To explore interrelations between cognitive, physical, affective, and daily functioning, quality of life and white matter hyperintensities (WMH) in a geriatric memory clinic sample.
Method: Participants received brain imaging, comprehensive geriatric assessment and neuropsychological evaluation including measurements of cognitive, physical, affective, and daily functioning and health-related quality of life. Data was analyzed using multiple linear regressions and network analysis using (moderated) mixed graphical models.
Article Synopsis
- After people are diagnosed with vascular cognitive impairment (VCI), they often get confusing care from different types of healthcare professionals, making it hard for them to get the help they really need.
- A study was done with healthcare workers to understand their views on how to improve care for VCI patients and their caregivers.
- The findings showed that it's important for healthcare workers to know about VCI, that care needs to be better organized, and that it would help if different types of healthcare experts worked together more closely.
Objectives: Vascular cognitive impairment is the second most common type of cognitive impairment. Care needs of community-dwelling people with vascular cognitive impairment and their caregivers have not been thoroughly studied. Therefore, we aimed to explore care needs of people with vascular cognitive impairment and their family caregivers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: This study aimed to investigate the interrelation between slowing in walking, thinking and mood, and their relationship with cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) in a geriatric population.
Design: Cross-sectional study.
Setting And Participants: 566 geriatric outpatients from the Amsterdam Aging Cohort (49% female; age 79 ±6 years), who visited the Amsterdam UMC geriatric outpatient memory clinic.
Introduction: In older patients, life expectancy is determined by a complex interaction of multiple geriatric domains. A comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) captures different geriatric domains. Yet, if and how components of the CGA are related to mortality in an outpatient geriatric setting is unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFabry disease (FD) patients may suffer from objective cognitive impairment (OCI). This study assessed the accuracy of the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) to screen for OCI in FD patients. Presence or absence of OCI was established using a neuropsychological test battery.
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