Participatory and Receptive Arts Engagement in Older Adults: Associations with Cognition Over a Seven-Year Period.

ABSTRACT: There is growing evidence for the impact of arts engagement on later life cognition. However, confounding by socioeconomic factors may have led to an overestimation of this association. We analyzed data from 4,344 older adults in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. We measured participatory (e.g. painting, making music, crafts) and receptive (e.g. concert, play, museum) arts engagement separately. Participants completed six neurocognitive tests measuring two distinct domains of cognitive function (episodic/working memory and executive function/language) concurrently and seven years later. We used inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) to remove confounding by a range of demographic and socioeconomic factors. Engaging in participatory or receptive arts for up to one hour per week (

SUBMITTER: Bone JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11318508 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature