Nursing intervention for the elderly with mild cognitive impairment progression of the disease.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 10 Nursing intervention for the elderly with mild cognitive impairment progression of the disease Abstract Objective To develop an integrated care intervention on elderly patients with mild cognitive impairment, the role of disease progression. Methods of 2004-2005 in our hospital outpatient and inpatient with mild cognitive impairment but not meet the DSM- and NINCDS-ADRDA diagnostic criteria of dementia were divided into control group and intervention group, 32 patients (intervention group set ) to give drug treatment in the same time, the intervention of comprehensive nursing intervention; the control group, 28 patients received drug treatment only, without any intervention. 1 year after the clinical degree of dementia rating scale used (CDR), Mini mental state examination (MMSE), Wechsler Memory Scale adults (WMS), activities of daily living scale (ADL) assessed the cognitive function and daily life capacity results. Through the implementation of the intervention group of patients after 1 year 2 MMSE score, ADL score, WMS score differences were significant (all P lt;0.05) the evolution of the degree of dementia, there were significant differences (P lt;0.05). Conclusions MCI comprehensive early intervention, prevention is of great significance. Keywords: dementia, mild cognitive impairment, cognitive nursing intervention in activities of daily living Mild cognitive impairment [1] (mild cognitive impaiment, MCI) refers to their age and education level of cognitive impairment that does not match, but no dementia status, have a greater risk of progression to dementia. Domestic and foreign research through the development of cognitive impairment in elderly people is to distinguish normal aging to early dementia. Study, MCI incidence of the elderly was 5.3%. In the last 3-4 years of follow-up study, approximately 50% of MCI into dementia, the individual, the conversion rate increased with age and disease duration