Digital exclusion and cognitive impairment in older people: findings from five longitudinal studies.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Older people are more likely to have digital exclusion, which is associated with poor health. This study investigated the relationship between digital exclusion and cognitive impairment in older adults from 23 countries across five longitudinal surveys.

Design and measurements

Digital exclusion is defined as self-reported non-use of the Internet. We assessed cognitive impairment on three dimensions: orientation, memory, and executive function. We used generalized estimation equations fitting binary logistic regression with exchangeable correlations to study the relationship between digital exclusion and cognitive impairment, and apply the minimum sufficiently adjusted set of causally directed acyclic graphs as the adjusted variable.

Setting and participants

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11077883 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature