Use it or lose it: Engaged lifestyle as a buffer of cognitive decline in aging?

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 245-263

  Hultsch, David F ^a   Hertzog, Christopher ^b   Small, Brent J ^b   Dixon, Roger A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTELLIGENCE; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SELF CARE; SELF HELP; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LIFE STYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 0033011380     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.14.2.245     Document Type: Article

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