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General lifestyle activities as a predictor of current cognition change in older adults
— a cross-sectional and longitudinal examination | | Author(s) | Rachel S Newson, Eva B Kemps |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 60B, no 3, May 2005 |
| Pages | pp P113-P121 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Self care capacity ; Mobility ; Mental ageing ; Correlation ; Cross sectional surveys ; Longitudinal surveys ; Australia. |
| Annotation | The authors sought to determine whether general lifestyle activities influence cognitive functioning, and whether activity and sensory functioning account for age-related variance in current cognition and cognitive change. Participants were drawn from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Ageing (ALSA), and they completed the Adelaide Activities Profile and a battery of tests measuring cognitive and sensory functioning. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that, after sensory functioning was controlled for, activity was a significant predictor of current levels of speed, picture naming, incidental recall and verbal fluency; and of cognitive change in speed, picture naming and incidental recall. Commonality analyses demonstrated that activity accounted for a notable amount of the total variance in cognition, and that there was prominent overlap in shared variance between activity and age, and between sensory functioning and age. These findings suggest that engaging in general lifestyle activities may help to promote successful cognitive ageing. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051103514 A |
| Classmark | CA: C4: D6: 49: 3KB: 3J: 7YA |
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