Memory Complaints Are Frequent but Qualitatively Different in Young and Elderly Healthy People
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Memory complaints are frequent but qualitatively different in young and elderly healthy people.
BACKGROUND Subjective memory complaints are frequently reported by the elderly. There is less information about the characterization of subjective memory complaints in young people. OBJECTIVE To determine different memory complaints between young and elderly people with the use of the Subjective Memory Complaints (SMC) scale. METHODS Participants were volunteers attending a health itinerant...
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عنوان ژورنال: Gerontology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1423-0003,0304-324X
DOI: 10.1159/000240048