Education, occupation, and dementia: The bavarian school sisters study

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 548-556

  Bickel, Horst ^a,b   Kurz, Alexander ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dementia; Natural experiment; Reserve capacity; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; OCCUPATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; DEMENTIA; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; OCCUPATIONS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;

EID: 67649853067     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000227781     Document Type: Article

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