Performance on the Picture Description Tasks in Patients with Late Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type

Eda Can,Gülmira Kuruoğlu

doi:10.31470/10.31470/2706-7904-2020-15-105-110

Eda Can, Gülmira Kuruoğlu

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https://doi.org/10.31470/10.31470/2706-7904-2020-15-105-110

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Linguistic problems such as word finding difficulties, writing disorders, problems in phonetic and syntactic use are one of the most important problems seen in individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). Compared to late onset, early onset dementia patients experience these problems at a faster rate. However; the linguistic abilities of LAD patients are quite similar to the healthy people. In this study, the picture description performance of late onset AD patients and healthy people were compared in terms of affirmative, negative and interrogative sentence structures. According to the results, there is a significant difference within groups. Late onset AD patients produced more declarative and interrogative sentences in picnic picture description test.

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Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the commonest form of dementia, accounting for between one-half and two-thirds of all cases
According to the results related to the picture descriptions, it was revealed that, the number of negative and interrogative sentences that LAD patients produced was higher in picnic picture description test compared to cookie-theft (Affirmative: % 31 / Negative: % 26 / Interrogative: % 42.7) (p
According to the results related to the group comparison, it was found out that in picnic picture and cookie-theft picture description tests there was a statistically significant difference between LAD patients and CG in terms of declarative and interrogative sentences (Picnic picture: p

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Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the commonest form of dementia, accounting for between one-half and two-thirds of all cases. AD is divided into three stages by most experts: early, middle and late. Each stages is referenced by degrees of memory loss, activity, sleep disturbance, and other characteristics (Turkington & Mitchell, 2010). A rare form of AD occurs earlier in life than normally expcted-usually before age 65. Onset Alzheimer’s Disease (LAD) strikes often enough to be given a name: early onset familial AD. Other than the unusually early appearance, the symptoms of LAD are similar to those of AD that appear in older patients. Some research suggests that people with LAD decline at a faster rate (Turkington & Mitchell, 2010)

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