Childhood deprivation and later-life cognitive function in a population-based study of older rural South Africans.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Little research has evaluated the life course drivers of cognitive aging in South Africa.

Objectives

We investigated the relationships of self-rated childhood health and father's occupation during childhood with later-life cognitive function score and whether educational attainment mediated these relationships among older South Africans living in a former region of Apartheid-era racial segregation.

Methods

Data were from baseline assessments of "Health and Aging in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community" (HAALSI), a population-based study of 5059 men and women aged ≥40 years in 2015 in rural Agincourt sub-district, South Africa. Childhood health, father's occupation during childhood, and years of education were self-reported in study interviews

SUBMITTER: Kobayashi LC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5915343 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature