Age is no kinder to the better educated: Absence of an association investigated using latent growth techniques in a community sample

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 15-28

  Christensen, H ^a,b,c   Hofer, S M ^a,b,c   Mackinnon, A J ^a,b,c   Korten, A E ^a,b,c   Jorm, A F ^a,b,c   Henderson, A S ^a,b,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INJURY SCALE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION DISORDERS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035173457     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291799002834     Document Type: Article

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