Do health factors affect memory performance in old age?

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 572-576

  Jelicic, Marko ^a,b   Jonker, Cees ^a   Deeg, Dorly J H ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Elderly; Health factors; Memory; Recall

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032765387     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1166(199907)14:7<572::AID-GPS994>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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