Down's Syndrome and Aging: Is Senile Dementia Inevitable?
- 1 February 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 52 (1) , 119-124
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1983.52.1.119
Abstract
Numerous studies have reported that in elderly Down's Syndrome individuals there is a high preponderance of senile dementia. An examination of these investigations shows that, while there is accelerated neurological aging, there is not a high incidence of behavioral or overt senile dementia. Changes in cognitive functioning for Down's Syndrome persons are similar to those found in non-Down's retarded populations.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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