Activity levels and cognitive functioning in an elderly community sample

Age and Ageing

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 72-80

  Christensen, Helen ^a   Korten, Ailsa ^a   Jorm, A F ^a   Henderson, A S ^a   Scott, Ruth ^a   Mackinnon, A J ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; VARIANCE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 0030059784     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/25.1.72     Document Type: Article

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