Cognitive correlates of mortality: Evidence from a population-based sample of very old adults

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 309-313

  Small, Brent J ^a   Bäckman, Lars ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MORTALITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 1842301720     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.12.2.309     Document Type: Article

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