Living with stable MCI: Experiences among 17 individuals evaluated at a memory clinic

References

• Artero , S , Petersen , R , Touchon , J and Ritchie , K . 2006 . Revised criteria for mild cognitive impairment validation within a longitudinal population study . Dementia and Geriatric and Cognitive Disorders , 22 : 465 – 470 . doi: 10.1159/000096287
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bassuk , S S , Glass , T A and Berkman , L F . 1999 . Social disengagement and incident cognitive decline in community-dweling elderly persons . Annals of Internal Medicine , 131 : 165 – 173 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bennett , D A , Schneider , J A , Bienias , J L , Evans , D A and Wilson , R S . 2005 . Mild cognitive impairment is related to Alzheimer disease pathology and cerebral infarctions . Neurology , 64 : 834 – 841 . doi: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000152982.47274.9E
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Braun , V and Clarke , V . 2006 . Using thematic analysis in psychology . Qualitative Research in Psychology , 3 : 77 – 101 . doi: 10.1191/1478088706qp063oa
   Google Scholar
• Calhoun , L G . & Tedeschi, R.G. (Eds.). (1999). Facilitating posttraumatic growth: A clinician's guide. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum
   Google Scholar
• Charles , E , Bouby-Serieys , V , Thomas , P and Clement , J P . 2006 . Links between life events, traumatism and dementia; an open study including 565 patients with dementia . Encephle , 32 : 746 – 752 . doi: 10.1016/S0013-7006(06)76227-3
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Charles , S T and Carstensen , L L . 2010 . Social and emotional aspects of aging . Annual Review of Psychology , 61 : 383 – 409 . doi: 10.1146/annurev.psych.093008.100448
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dean , K and Wilcock , G . 2012 . Living with mild cognitive impairment: The patient's and carer's experience . International Psychogeriatrics , 24 : 871 – 881 . doi: 10.1017/S104161021100264X
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Eckerström , C , Olsson , E , Borga , M , Ekholm , S , Ribbelin , S , Rolstad , S Malmgren , H . 2008 . Small baseline volume of left hippocampus is associated with subsequent conversion of MCI into dementia: The Göteborg MCI study . Journal of the Neurological Science , 272 : 48 – 59 . doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2008.04.024
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Folstein , M F , Folstein , S E and McHugh , P R . 1975 . “Mini-mental state.” A practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician . Journal of Psychiatric Research , 12 : 189 – 198 . doi: 10.1016/0022-3956(75)90026-6
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fratiglioni , L , Wang , H X , Ericsson , K , Maytan , M and Winblad , B . 2000 . Influence of social network on occurrence of dementia: A community-based lontitudinal study . The Lancet , 355 : 1315 – 1319 . doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)02113-9
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Geslani , D M , Tierney , M C , Herrmann , N and Szalai , J P . 2005 . Mild cognitive impairment: An poeraitonal definition and its conversion rate to Alzheimer's Disease . Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders , 19 : 383 – 389 . doi: 10.1159/000084709
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gomar , J J , Bobes-Bascaran , M T , Conejero-Goldberg , C , Davies , P and Goldberg , T E . 2011 . Utility of combinations of biomarkers, cognitive markers, and risk factors to predict conversion from mild vognitive impairment to Alzheimer disease in patients in the Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative . Archives of General Psychiatry , 68 : 961 – 969 . doi: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.96
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Johansson , L , Guo , X , Waern , M , Östling , S , Gustafson , D , Bengtsson , C and Skoog , I . 2010 . Midlife psychological stress and risk of dementia: A 35-year longitudinal population study . Brain , 133 : 2217 – 2224 . doi: 10.1093/brain/awq116
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lind , K , Edman , Å , Nordlund , A , Olsson , T and Wallin , A . 2007 . Increased saliva cortisol awakening response in patients with mild cognitive impairment . Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders , 24 : 389 – 395 . doi: 10.1159/000109938
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lingler , J H , Nightingale , M C , Erlan , J A , Kane , A L , Reynolds , C F , Shulz , R and DeKosky , S T . 2006 . Making sense of mild cognitive impairment: A qualitative exploration of the patient's experience . The Geronotologist , 46 : 791 – 800 . doi: 10.1093/geront/46.6.791
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mattsson , N , Zetterberg , H , Hansson , O , Andreasen , N , Parnetti , L , Jonsson , M Blennow , K . 2009 . CSF biomarkers and incipient Alzheimer disease in patients with mild cognitive impairment . JAMA , 302 : 385 – 93 . doi: 10.1001/jama.2009.1064
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McIlvane , J M , Popa , M A , Robinson , B , Houseweart , K and Haley , W E . 2008 . Perceptions of illness, coping, and well-being in persons with mild cognitive impairment and their care partners . Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders , 22 : 284 – 292 . doi: 10.1097/WAD.0b013e318169d714
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mitchell , A J and Shiri-Feshki , M . 2009 . Rate of progression of mild cognitive impairment to dementia-meta-analysis of 41 robust inception cohort studies . Acta Psychiatry Scandinavia , 119 : 252 – 265 . doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2008.01326.x
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Morris , J C . 1997 . Clinical dementia rating: A reliable and valid diagnostic and staging measure for dementia of the Alzheimer type . International Psychogeriatrics , 9 : 173 – 176 . doi: 10.1017/S1041610297004870
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Nordlund , A , Rolstad , S , Klang , O , Lind , K , Pedersen , M , Blennow , K Wallin , A . 2008 . Episodic memory and speed/attention deficits are associated with Alzheimer-typical CSF abnormalities in MCI . Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , 14 : 582 – 590 . doi: 10.1017/S135561770808079X
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Reisberg , B , Ferris , S H , de Leon , M J and Crook , T . 1988 . Global Deterioration Scale (GDS) . Psychopharmacogyl Bulletin , 24 : 661 – 663 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Smith , J A and Osborn , M . 2003 . “ Interpretative phenomenological analysis ” . In Qualitative psychology: A practical guide to research methods , Edited by: Smith , J A . 51 – 81 . London : Sage .
   Google Scholar