TITLE:
A Brief Clinical Assessment of Cognitive Deficit with Impaired Daily Living Functioning in Parkinson’s Patients with and without Dementia
AUTHORS:
Sadaf Naeem, Rahila Najam, Nausheen Alam, Syed Waseem Akhter
KEYWORDS:
Parkinson’s Disease Patients, Activities of Daily Living, Montreal Cognitive Assessment, Mini Mental State Ex Amination, Instrumental Activity of Daily Living
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Parkinson's Disease,
Vol.5 No.2,
May
10,
2016
ABSTRACT: Cognitive decline in Parkinson’s disease (PD) is defined as dementia which affects activities of
daily living (ADL) function. Dementia is one of the recognized issues in the treatment of Parkinson’s
disease patients (PDP) as it is becoming a major contributor to morbidity. The objective of
our study was to evaluate the cognitive decline in Parkinson’s disease patients (PDP) and the influence
of cognition on daily living function deterioration in cognitively impaired and cognitively
unimpaired PDP. Cognitively impaired PDP (n = 24), and cognitively unimpaired PDP (n = 16)
were administered MoCA and MMSE performance based tests for cognitive measurements and
Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study Activities of Daily Living Inventory (ADCS-ADL) to determine
everyday functioning. The significances of MoCA and MMSE among cognitively impaired PDP
and cognitively unimpaired PDP in univariant analysis were P