Well-Being and Cognitive Resilience to Dementia-Related Neuropathology.

ABSTRACT: Not all older adults with dementia-related neuropathology in their brains experience cognitive decline or impairment. Instead, some people maintain relatively normal cognitive functioning despite neuropathologic burden, a phenomenon called cognitive resilience. Using a longitudinal, epidemiological, clinical-pathologic cohort study of older adults in the United States (N = 348), the present research investigated associations between well-being and cognitive resilience. Consistent with preregistered hypotheses, results showed that higher eudaimonic well-being (measured via the Ryff Psychological Well-Being Scale) and higher hedonic well-being (measured via the Satisfaction with Life Scale) were associated with better-than-expected cognitive functioning relative to one's neurop

SUBMITTER: Willroth EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10068507 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature