Feeling Older and the Development of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Subjective age is a biopsychosocial marker of aging associated with a range of outcomes in old age. In the domain of cognition, feeling older than one's chronological age is related to lower cognitive performance and steeper cognitive decline among older adults. The present study examines whether an older subjective age is associated with the risk of incident cognitive impairment and dementia.

Method

Participants were 5,748 individuals aged 65 years and older drawn from the Health and Retirement Study. Measures of subjective age, cognition, and covariates were obtained at baseline, and follow-up cognition was assessed over a 2- to 4-year period. Only participants without cognitive impairment were included at baseline. At follow-up, participants were classified into

SUBMITTER: Stephan Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5927095 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature