The Association Between Multilingual Experience Factors and Cognitive Functioning in Older Adults: A Lifelines Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The complex life experience of speaking two or more languages has been suggested to preserve cognition in older adulthood. This study aimed to investigate this further by examining the relationship between multilingual experience variables and cognitive functioning in a large cohort of older adults in the diversely multilingual north of the Netherlands.

Method

A total of 11,332 older individuals participating in the Lifelines Cohort Study completed a language experience questionnaire. From this cohort, a subset was selected (n = 3,972, aged 59-86) for whom complete demographic and cognitive data were available and who had learned at least two languages to evaluate the association between multilingual experience variables and cognitive functioning. Cognitive functi

SUBMITTER: van den Berg F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11815170 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature