Spiritual Struggle and Religious Coping in Older Adults with Mood Disorders

Abstract

approached significance (p1⁄4 .08). In a separate regression model, onset of depression, white matter lesion, and cortical thickness data were not significantly associated with ILS performance. Conclusions: Our results suggest that within LLD, impairments of financial capacity are common. Further, individuals with impaired financial capacity exhibit worse performance on measures of memory, attention and executive functioning than individuals with no financial capacity impairment but show no difference in language abilities. In contrast to our hypothesis, memory, and not attention and executive functioning, was the only significant cognitive predictor of financial capacity performance. Also cortical atrophy and WML volume was not significantly associated with financial capacity performance and these findings did not support our hypothesis. Taken together however, our findings suggest that impairment of financial capacity in LLD may result from specific cognitive impairments associated with LLD, and may not share the same association with cortical atrophy seen in neurodegenerative diseases of aging. Given our relatively small sample size we interpret these findings cautiously, and future research on the association of cognitive function and cortical atrophy on financial capacity in LLD is warranted.