Search for dissertations about: "terminal decline"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 21 swedish dissertations containing the words terminal decline.
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1. Change and variability in cognitive performance in old age. Effects of retest, terminal decline, and pre-clinical dementia
Abstract : The focus of the presented studies was to provide population estimates of change and variability in cognitive performance in old age. Data was drawn from the Gerontological and Geriatric Population Studies in Gothenburg, Sweden (H70). In study I retest effects were evaluated on level of performance in five cognitive abilities. READ MORE
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2. Prodromal Cognitive Signs of Dementia
Abstract : The increase in proportion of elderly worldwide, coupled with the fact that increasing age is a primary risk factor for dementia, have fuelled the efforts to unveil the warning signs of dementia. Although important achievements have been made in this field during the last decades, many questions are still to be answered. READ MORE
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3. Late life terminal decline and interdependence among cognitive changes as a function of age and mortality. Findings from an age-homogeneous population-based panel study
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4. The decline of choreography and its movement : a body's (path)way
Abstract : This doctoral artistic research project addresses the possibility of a dance withdrawn from that neoliberal scheme accordingto which self-performance, entrepreneurship and the production of subjectivity rule. Taking as a starting point the dissident corporealities that have emerged in the last fifty years in Western contemporary experimental dance; the project involvesaesthetic, philosophical and socio-political perspectives, carried out on choreographic, performative, textual, audiovisual, curatorial and discursive media. READ MORE
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5. Cognitive functioning during the transition from normal aging to dementia
Abstract : The general aim of this thesis was to address unresolved issues regarding cognitive functioning in preclinical dementia. Increasing the knowledge about the preclinical period of dementia might have important clinical implications. For example, it may facilitate early detection, and thereby increase the efficiency of available interventions. READ MORE