Aging and the Occurrence of Dementia
Open Access
- 1 May 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology
- Vol. 56 (5) , 587-592
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneur.56.5.587
Abstract
IN RECENT years, several studies have addressed the issue of whether dementia is an "age- or aging-related disorder."1-3 In spite of numerous prevalence4-13 and incidence14-22 studies, it is still unclear if the exponential increase in dementia frequency with age continues, even in the advanced ages, as an inevitable feature of aging,9,10,13 or if the occurrence reaches a plateau in people 85 years and older.2,3Keywords
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