Age-associated cognitive decline in healthy old people

Age and Ageing

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 295-300

  Starr, John M ^a   Deary, Ian J ^a   Inch, Susan ^a   Cross, Susan ^a   MacLennan, Willliam J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age associated cognitive decline; Healthy old people

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DRUG USE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SOCIAL CLASS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SCOTLAND;

EID: 0030791911     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/26.4.295     Document Type: Article

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