Educational Differences in the Prevalence of Dementia and Life Expectancy with Dementia: Changes from 2000 to 2010.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This article provides the first estimates of educational differences in age-specific prevalence, and changes in prevalence over time, of dementia by education levels in the United States. It also provides information on life expectancy, and changes in life expectancy, with dementia and cognitively healthy life for educational groups.

Method

Data on cognition from the 2000 and 2010 Health and Retirement Study are used to classify respondents as having dementia, cognitive impairment without dementia (CIND), or being cognitively intact. Vital statistics data are used to estimate life tables for education groups and the Sullivan method is used to estimate life expectancy by cognitive state.

Results

People with more education have lower prevalence of dementia, m

SUBMITTER: Crimmins EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6019027 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature