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  1. Article ; Online: Impact of quarantine due to COVID-19 pandemic on health and lifestyle conditions in older adults from Centro American countries.

    Neyda Ma Mendoza-Ruvalcaba / Raúl Gutiérrez-Herrera / Cecilia López / Heike Hesse / Marcio Soto-Añari / Miguel Ramos-Henderson / Juan-Carlos Cárdenas-Valverde / Loida Camargo / Nicole Caldichoury / Jorge Herrera-Pino / José Calizaya-López / Cesar Castellanos / Claudia García / María F Porto / Norman López

    PLoS ONE, Vol 17, Iss 5, p e

    2022  Volume 0264087

    Abstract: Background The impact of quarantine in older adults have been reported in several studies with contradictory results, reporting from negative effects to no significant outcomes or even beneficial consequences. Heterogeneity in aging plays a role in each ... ...

    Abstract Background The impact of quarantine in older adults have been reported in several studies with contradictory results, reporting from negative effects to no significant outcomes or even beneficial consequences. Heterogeneity in aging plays a role in each region, the aim of this study is to analyze the impact of quarantine on health conditions (physical and mental) and lifestyle in older adults in five Centro American countries during COVID-19 pandemic. Method In this cross-sectional study, n = 712 older adults 60 years and older from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica were assessed by telephone. Sociodemographic data, physical and mental health, lifestyle and quarantine conditions were asked previous informed consent. Results In general, mean of days in quarantine at the moment of the study was 142 days (approximately four months and three weeks). In the analysis of the impact of the days in quarantine effects were found on the frequency of falls, functional ability in Activities of Daily Living (ADL), general cognitive function, memory, orientation, language, frequency of drinking alcohol, having a balanced diet, and being active cognitively. Some differences were found between countries. Conclusions Effects of quarantine on older adults in Centro America, requires attention of governments and healthcare to prevent long term morbidity and disability, and to promote healthy aging.
    Keywords Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 796 ; 306
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
    Document type Article ; Online
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  2. Article ; Online: Impact of quarantine due to COVID-19 pandemic on health and lifestyle conditions in older adults from Centro American countries

    Neyda Ma. Mendoza-Ruvalcaba / Raúl Gutiérrez-Herrera / Cecilia López / Heike Hesse / Marcio Soto-Añari / Miguel Ramos-Henderson / Juan-Carlos Cárdenas-Valverde / Loida Camargo / Nicole Caldichoury / Jorge Herrera-Pino / José Calizaya-López / Cesar Castellanos / Claudia García / María F. Porto / Norman López

    PLoS ONE, Vol 17, Iss

    2022  Volume 5

    Abstract: Background The impact of quarantine in older adults have been reported in several studies with contradictory results, reporting from negative effects to no significant outcomes or even beneficial consequences. Heterogeneity in aging plays a role in each ... ...

    Abstract Background The impact of quarantine in older adults have been reported in several studies with contradictory results, reporting from negative effects to no significant outcomes or even beneficial consequences. Heterogeneity in aging plays a role in each region, the aim of this study is to analyze the impact of quarantine on health conditions (physical and mental) and lifestyle in older adults in five Centro American countries during COVID-19 pandemic. Method In this cross-sectional study, n = 712 older adults 60 years and older from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica were assessed by telephone. Sociodemographic data, physical and mental health, lifestyle and quarantine conditions were asked previous informed consent. Results In general, mean of days in quarantine at the moment of the study was 142 days (approximately four months and three weeks). In the analysis of the impact of the days in quarantine effects were found on the frequency of falls, functional ability in Activities of Daily Living (ADL), general cognitive function, memory, orientation, language, frequency of drinking alcohol, having a balanced diet, and being active cognitively. Some differences were found between countries. Conclusions Effects of quarantine on older adults in Centro America, requires attention of governments and healthcare to prevent long term morbidity and disability, and to promote healthy aging.
    Keywords Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 796 ; 306
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  3. Article ; Online: Funciones ejecutivas en adultos mayores alfabetizados y no alfabetizados

    Marcio Soto-Añari / Gabriela Cáceres-Luna

    Revista Chilena de Neuropsicologia, Vol 7, Iss 3, Pp 127-

    2012  Volume 133

    Abstract: The study of cognitive functions in ageing, especially the executive functions in illiterate populations have not received the necessary attention. Studies show a significant increase of risk to develop cognitive impairment or dementia in populations ... ...

    Abstract The study of cognitive functions in ageing, especially the executive functions in illiterate populations have not received the necessary attention. Studies show a significant increase of risk to develop cognitive impairment or dementia in populations with low level of education and/or illiterate. This increase of cases would be associated with the low capacity of brain and cognition to cope with neurodegenerative processes and which would be mediated by formal educational process. The aim of the study is compare the performance in executive functions in literate and illiterates. A total of 156 older adults were divided into four groups according to educational level: illiterates; subjects with basic and high school and subjects with university degree with the frontal assessment battery (FAB). Our results show significant differences between literates and illiterates in those variables mediated by verbal aspects and inhibitory control mechanisms. We also note that illiterate subjects and with basic school level are significantly different from subjects with higher school level and with university education. These first approximations show us the importance that formal schooling has on brain and functional architecture and opens up a line of promising research that analyzes the role of the executive function in normal and pathological cognitive ageing.
    Keywords illiterates ; executive function ; aging ; dementia ; Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry ; RC321-571 ; Internal medicine ; RC31-1245 ; Medicine ; R ; DOAJ:Neurology ; DOAJ:Medicine (General) ; DOAJ:Health Sciences
    Subject code 150
    Language Spanish
    Publishing date 2012-12-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Universidad de La Frontera
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  4. Article ; Online: The impact of COVID-19 on the well-being and cognition of older adults living in the United States and Latin America

    Ganesh M. Babulal / Valeria L. Torres / Daisy Acosta / Cinthya Agüero / Sara Aguilar-Navarro / Rebecca Amariglio / Juliana Aya Ussui / Ana Baena / Yamile Bocanegra / Sonia Maria Dozzi Brucki / Julian Bustin / Diego M. Cabrera / Nilton Custodio / Monica M. Diaz / Lissette Duque Peñailillo / Idalid Franco / Jennifer R. Gatchel / Ana Paola Garza-Naveda / Mariana González Lara /
    Lidia Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez / Edmarie Guzmán-Vélez / Bernard J. Hanseeuw / Ivonne Z. Jimenez-Velazquez / Tomás León Rodríguez / Jorge Llibre-Guerra / María J. Marquine / Jairo Martinez / Luis D. Medina / Claudia Miranda-Castillo / Alejandra Morlett Paredes / Diana Munera / Alberto Nuñez-Herrera / Maira Okada de Oliveira / Santiago J. Palmer-Cancel / Enmanuelle Pardilla-Delgado / Jaime Perales-Puchalt / Celina Pluim / Liliana Ramirez-Gomez / Dorene M. Rentz / Claudia Rivera-Fernández / Monica Rosselli / Cecilia M Serrano / Maria Jose Suing-Ortega / Andrea Slachevsky / Marcio Soto-Añari / Reisa A. Sperling / Fernando Torrente / Daniela Thumala / Patrizia Vannini / Clara Vila-Castelar

    EClinicalMedicine, Vol 35, Iss , Pp 100848- (2021)

    2021  

    Abstract: Background: In the COVID-19 pandemic, older adults from vulnerable ethnoracial groups are at high risk of infection, hospitalization, and death. We aimed to explore the pandemic's impact on the well-being and cognition of older adults living in the ... ...

    Abstract Background: In the COVID-19 pandemic, older adults from vulnerable ethnoracial groups are at high risk of infection, hospitalization, and death. We aimed to explore the pandemic's impact on the well-being and cognition of older adults living in the United States (US), Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Peru. Methods: 1,608 (646 White, 852 Latino, 77 Black, 33 Asian; 72% female) individuals from the US and four Latin American countries aged ≥ 55 years completed an online survey regarding well-being and cognition during the pandemic between May and September 2020. Outcome variables (pandemic impact, discrimination, loneliness, purpose of life, subjective cognitive concerns) were compared across four US ethnoracial groups and older adults living in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Peru. Findings: Mean age for all participants was 66.7 (SD = 7.7) years and mean education was 15.4 (SD = 2.7) years. Compared to Whites, Latinos living in the US reported greater economic impact (p < .001, ηp2 = 0.031); while Blacks reported experiencing discrimination more often (p < .001, ηp2 = 0.050). Blacks and Latinos reported more positive coping (p < .001, ηp2 = 0.040). Compared to Latinos living in the US, Latinos in Chile, Mexico, and Peru reported greater pandemic impact, Latinos in Mexico and Peru reported more positive coping, Latinos in Argentina, Mexico, and Peru had greater economic impact, and Latinos in Argentina, Chile, and Peru reported less discrimination. Interpretation: The COVID-19 pandemic has differentially impacted the well-being of older ethnically diverse individuals in the US and Latin America. Future studies should examine how mediators like income and coping skills modify the pandemic's impact. Funding: Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry.
    Keywords COVID-19 ; US ; Latin America ; Diversity ; Well-being ; Cognition ; Medicine (General) ; R5-920
    Subject code 306
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-05-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Elsevier
    Document type Article ; Online
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