The relation of lifetime cognitive activity and lifetime access to resources to late-life cognitive function in older African Americans

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 13, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 516-528

  Barnes, Lisa ^a,b,c   Wilson, Robert ^a,b,c   Mendes De Leon, Carlos ^d   Bennett, David ^a,b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Behavioral Sciences ^*  (United States)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MINORITY GROUP; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOMETRY; READING; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TIME;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LIFE; LIFE STYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; READING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33746911958     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: 17444128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/138255890969519     Document Type: Article

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