The association between change in cognitive ability and cause-specific mortality in a community sample of older adults

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 229-236

  Batterham, Philip J ^a   Mackinnon, Andrew J ^b   Christensen, Helen ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

All cause mortality; Cause specific mortality; Cognition; Cognitive change; Latent growth models

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; COGNITION; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; DEPRESSION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FOLLOW UP; GRIP STRENGTH; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; PSYCHOMETRY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SURVIVAL TIME; AGING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUSTRALIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84863617671     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024517     Document Type: Article

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