Executive Functions and Aging

The main objectives of this work are to evaluate the domain of EF in healthy elderly people and elderly people with mild dementia to examine the degree of relationship between EF assessment tests and specific domains in the ACE-R to evaluate which cognitive and executive functions are most vulnerable to increasing age and to establish the relationship between executive functions and level of education using a set of tests (Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination [ACE-R; Mioshi Dawson Mitchell et al 2006; Firmino Simões Pinho et al. 2008]; Semantic Verbal Fluency and Phonemic Verbal Fluency; Trail Making Test [TMT A & B; Reitan 1985; Cavaco et al. 2008]; Stroop Test [Stroop 1935; Golden 2001]; Similarities Subtest [Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale; WAIS - III; Wechsler 2008]) with predictive value for assessing this domain of cognitive functioning.