Speed of aging of populations by socioeconomics subgroups in China: A cross-sectional study of cognitive performance.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Although there is an association between socioeconomic factors and cognition, there are shortcomings in terms of examining the age of onset of decline between people with varying social backgrounds. This study aims to present the disparities in cognitive performance among older adults by simultaneously integrating health status, social characteristics, and age into an understandable metric.

Study design

This study is cross-sectional.

Methods

A sample of 3422 adults aged at least 60 was utilised from the 2015 wave of the China Health and Nutrition Survey to analyse the trajectories of cognitive ageing through the Characteristics approach. This approach generates an age-differential schedule whereby, as a hypothetical example, the cognition level Z of

SUBMITTER: Vicerra PMM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10509350 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature