How do top cable news websites portray cognition as an aging issue?

Gerontologist

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 367-382

  Vandenberg, Anna E ^a,b   Price, Anna E ^c   Friedman, Daniela B ^d   Marchman, Graham ^e   Anderson, Lynda A ^b,f  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e FURMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Communications media; Dementia; Internet; Journalism

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION SERVICE; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICS; TELEVISION;

AGING; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; FEMALE; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TELEVISION;

EID: 84863612673     PISSN: 00169013     EISSN: 17585341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnr100     Document Type: Article

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