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The association between social resources and cognitive change in older adults — evidence from the Charlotte County Healthy Aging Study
Author(s)	Tiffany F Hughes, Ross Andel, Brent J Small
Journal title	Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 63B, no 4, July 2008
Pages	pp P241-P244
Source	http://www.geron.org
Keywords	Personal relationships ; Informal care ; Friends ; The Family ; Social contacts ; Mental ageing ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Correlation ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	The study examined associations between multiple aspects of social resources and 5-year change in performance on different domains of cognitive function. Results indicated that lower satisfaction with support was associated with decline in episodic memory performance over 5 years. The researchers also found significant interactions between age and social networks of family and friends and satisfaction with support for the separate cognitive domains. The results suggest that social resources may be differentially important for cognitive change but that different cognitive domains respond in a similar pattern to social resources. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-091210212 A
Classmark	DS: P6: SX: SJ: TOA: D6: DB: 49: 3J: 7T
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