Demographic predictors of cognitive change in ethnically diverse older persons

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 633-645

  Early, Dawnté R ^a   Widaman, Keith F ^b   Harvey, Danielle ^a   Beckett, Laurel ^a   Park, Lovingly Quitania ^a   Farias, Sarah Tomaszewski ^a   Reed, Bruce R ^a,c   DeCarli, Charles ^a   Mungas, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Cognitive change; Dementia; Ethnic differences; Hispanics

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPISODIC MEMORY; ETHNICITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DETERIORATION; RACE; SEMANTIC MEMORY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84884336761     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0031645     Document Type: Article

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