Decline in learning ability best predicts future dementia type: The freedom house study

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 385-406

  Royall, Donald R ^a   Palmer, Raymond ^a   Chiodo, Laura K ^a   Polk, Marsha J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRAWING; EDUCATION; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PENSIONER; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0141955220     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610730303700     Document Type: Article

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