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| Living arrangement and cognitive decline among older people in Europe | | Author(s) | Stefano Mazzuco, Silvia Meggiolaro, Fausta Ongaro, Veronica Toffilutti |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 37, no 6, July 2017 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, July 2017 |
| Pages | pp 1111-1133 |
| Source | cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Living patterns ; Living with others ; Well being ; Mental disorder ; Indicators ; Correlation ; Europe. |
| Annotation | Family resources may play an important role in the well-being of older people. The authors examine the association between living arrangement and cognitive decline among people over 65 living in different European countries. Their hypothesis is that living with others (i.e. spouse or/and children) vis-à-vis living alone may have a positive role in maintaining cognitive functioning, but also that such beneficial influence varies according to the circumstances. To this end, they used data from the first two waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), which provides indicators of several cognitive functions: orientation, immediate recall, delayed recall, verbal fluency and numeracy. Net of both the potential biases due to the selective attrition and the re-test effects, the evidence shows that the association between living arrangement and cognitive decline depends on the geographical area and on the starting level of cognitive function. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170616201 A |
| Classmark | K7: KA: D:F:5HH: E: 3RI: 49: 74 |
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