The Relationship of Decision‐making capacity and the age of onset in Alzheimer´s Disease
Natalie Souza · 2025
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Natalie Souza compares decision-making capacity in people whose Alzheimer's disease began early in life with those whose disease began late. Her cross-sectional study covers 169 people, 124 with late-onset disease and 45 with young-onset disease. The work asks whether age at onset changes how well patients grasp choices about their own care.
All patients showed weakness in decision-making, with understanding the hardest part. The young-onset group was more impaired on general thinking tests, yet more aware of its own deficits and health state. That group also had more years of schooling. Souza links better decision-making capacity with better understanding in the young-onset group. She argues that care teams should weigh age at onset when they judge what a patient can still decide.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Natalie Souza |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 1 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |