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Marital status and living situation during a 5-year period are associated with a subsequent 10-year cognitive decline in older men
— the FINE study | | Author(s) | Boukje Maria van Gelder, Marja Tijhuis, Sandra Kalmijn |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 61B, no 4, July 2006 |
| Pages | pp P213-P219 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Older men ; Marital status ; Living alone ; Living in the community ; Mental disorder ; Correlation ; Longitudinal surveys ; Netherlands ; Italy ; Finland. |
| Annotation | In a study population of 1942 men aged 70-89 years in 1999 participating in the longitudinal Finland, Italy, the Netherlands Elderly (known as FINE) study, the authors investigated the association between marital status and living situation (over 5-years) on 10-year subsequent cognitive decline. They measured cognition using the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) and assessed marital status (married vs unmarried) and living situation (living with others vs living alone) with a standardised questionnaire. They performed repeated measurement analyses, adjusting for age, education, country, smoking, alcohol, chronic diseases, marital status or living situation, and baseline cognition. Men who lost a partner, who were unmarried, who started to live alone, or who lived alone during the 5-year period had subsequent cognitive decline that was at least twice as strong compared with that for men who were married or lived with someone in those years. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070504219 A |
| Classmark | BC: SLM: K8: K4: E: 49: 3J: 76H: 76V: 76L |
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