Financial and Health Literacy Predict Incident Alzheimer's Disease Dementia and Pathology.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Domain specific literacy is a multidimensional construct that requires multiple resources including cognitive and non-cognitive factors.

Objective

We test the hypothesis that domain specific literacy is associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia and AD pathology after controlling for cognition.

Methods

Participants were community-based older persons who completed a baseline literacy assessment, underwent annual clinical evaluations for up to 8 years, and agreed to organ donation after death. Financial and health literacy was measured using 32 questions and cognition was measured using 19 tests. Annual diagnosis of AD dementia followed standard criteria. AD pathology was examined postmortem by quantifying plaques and tangles. Cox models examined the a

SUBMITTER: Yu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5444544 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature