Many researches are focused on the study of depression in older age, their results show a negative impact of depression on the cognition of the elderly. There are not many studies that focus on geriatric anxiety and their results are often contradictory. In the theoretical part, this thesis aims to provide an insight into the anxiety from the philosophical and clinical standpoint, and in particular to describe the specifics of the geriatric anxiety and various areas of human life that may affect it. The practical part presents the results of 279 participants of the NANOK study aged 60-92 years, the analysis focuses on the effects of anxiety symptoms on cognition, taking into account depressive symptoms. Significant differences in healthy elderly persons are found only in the tests of immediate and delayed recall, no significant differences are found in the attention and executive functions tests. Various ways of influencing cognition by anxiety are discussed. In our sample of healthy older people, the rate of anxiety symtoms was not associated with the level of cognitive performance. Keywords: elderly; cognition; depression; anxiety; screening; Geriatric Anxiety Inventory; GAI
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:397964 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Heissler, Radek |
| Contributors | Georgi, Hana, Blatný, Marek |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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