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Activity in older adults: cause or consequence of cognitive functioning?
— A longitudinal study on everyday activities and cognitive performance in older adults | | Author(s) | Marja J Aartsen, Carolien H M Smits, Theo van Tilburg |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 57B, no 2, March 2002 |
| Pages | pp P153-P162 |
| Keywords | Self care capacity ; Mobility ; Cognitive processes ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Longitudinal surveys ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | The impact of three types of everyday activities (social, experiential and developmental) on four cognitive functions (immediate recall, learning, fluid intelligence, and information processing speed) and one global indicator of cognitive functioning (Mini-Mental State Examination score) over a 4-year period was studied in a population-based sample of 2,076 Dutch people aged 55-85. None of the activities were found to enhance cognitive functioning 6 years later, when controlling for age, gender, level of education, and health, as well as for unknown confounding variables. Conversely, one cognitive function - information processing speed - appeared to affect developmental activity. It is suggested that no specific activity, but rather sub-economic status to which activities are closely connected, contributes to maintenance of cognitive function. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020614206 A |
| Classmark | CA: C4: DA: F: 3J: 76H |
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