Associations between cognitive activities and all-cause mortality among older adults with cognitive impairment: A prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evidence on the association between cognitive activities and mortality among older adults with cognitive impairment is limited. Therefore, the study aimed to assess the association and examine whether baseline cognitive function mediates the association.

Methods

A total of 10477 older participants with cognitive impairment (median age: 95.0 [IQR: 88.0-100.0], males: 27.9%, Mini-Mental State Examination score ≤24 points) from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey conducted between 1998 and 2014 were included, with follow-up until 2018. Exposures were three prevalent cognitive activities among older adults in China: reading books/newspapers, playing cards/mah-jong, and watching TV or listening to radio, and the outcome was all-cause mortality within a 10

SUBMITTER: Duan L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11841911 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature