Cognitive decline impairs financial and health literacy among community-based older persons without dementia

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 614-624

  Boyle, Patricia A ^a   Yu, Lei ^a   Wilson, Robert S ^a   Segawa, Eisuke ^a   Buchman, Aron S ^a   Bennett, David A ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognitive decline; Executive function; Literacy; Memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AVERSION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; EDUCATION; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FINANCE; FINANCIAL LITERACY; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PATH ANALYSIS; RISK AVERSION; SENESCENCE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; WORD LIST RECALL; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION DISORDERS; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEDICARE PART D; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884333485     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0033103     Document Type: Article

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