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| A comparison of correlates of cognitive functioning in older persons in Taiwan and the United States | | Author(s) | Mary Beth Ofstedal, Zachary S Zimmer, Hui-Sheng Lin |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 54B, no 5, September 1999 |
| Pages | pp S291-301 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Health [elderly] ; Comparison ; Taiwan ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Patterns of association between cognitive functioning and a number of sociodemographic and health correlates for older people in Taiwan and the United States (US) are compared. The study uses data from Taiwan's 1993 Survey of Health and Living Status of the Elderly and the 1993 US Study of Asset and Health Dynamics among the Oldest Old. Separate multivariate regression models are used for each country to examine the effects of sociodemographic and health factors on cognitive functioning and to examine the marginal impact of cognitive functioning on activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental ADL (IADL) functioning. Results of multivariate analysis show similar patterns of association across the two countries which replicate findings from previous studies. Increasing age, female gender, lower education, depression, and selected health conditions are associated with lower cognitive functioning. Also, although a significant predictor of both ADL and IADL impairments, cognitive functioning is more powerful with respect to explaining IADL impairments. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991220228 A |
| Classmark | DA: F: CC: 48: 7DP: 7T |
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