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| Education, wealth and cognitive function in later life | | Author(s) | Kathleen A Cagney, Diane S Lauderdale |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 57B, no 2, March 2002 |
| Pages | pp P163-P172 |
| Keywords | Ethnic groups ; Educational status [elderly] ; Economic status [elderly] ; Cognitive processes ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Population-based studies of health often use education as the sole indicator of socio-economic status (SES); the independent contribution of education and other SES co-variates are rarely dilineated. Using Wave 1 of the US Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old study (AHEAD), the authors examined the extent to which educational attainment influences performance on three separate domains of cognitive status by race and Latino ethnicity, and introduced controls for wealth and household income. Results indicate that the education effect is minimally weakened after adjusting for wealth; the wealth effect, however, is greatly attenuated after adjusting for education. Blacks and Whites exhibited a similar education-cognition relationship. Latino older people did not experience commensurate gains in cognitive function with increasing education. It is suggested that the education-cognition relationship is more likely due to the process and consequence of education itself. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020614207 A |
| Classmark | TK: F:V: F:W: DA: 49: 7T |
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