Frailty Is Related to Subjective Cognitive Decline in Older Women without Dementia.

Gifford KA, Bell SP, Liu D*, Neal JE**, Turchan M, Shah AS, Jefferson AL. Frailty Is Related to Subjective Cognitive Decline in Older Women without Dementia. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2019 Sep;67(67). 1803-1811. PMID: 31095735 [PubMed] PMCID: PMC6781867 NIHMSID: NIHMS1026400.

Abstract

Physical frailty (or loss of physiologic reserve) is associated with cognitive impairment and dementia. Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) may represent early pathologic changes of dementia. The association between these disease markers is unclear.