Associations Between Midlife Functional Limitations and Self-Reported Health and Cognitive Status: Results from the 1998-2016 Health and Retirement Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Life-course approaches to identify and help improve modifiable risk factors, particularly in midlife, may mitigate cognitive aging.

Objective

We examined how midlife self-rated physical functioning and health may predict cognitive health in older age.

Methods

We used data from the Health and Retirement Study (1998-2016; unweighted-N = 4,685). We used survey multinomial logistic regression and latent growth curve models to examine how midlife (age 50-64 years) activities of daily living (ADL), physical function, and self-reported health affect cognitive trajectories and cognitive impairment not dementia (CIND) and dementia status 18 years later. Then, we tested for sex and racial/ethnic modifications.

Results

After covariates-adjustment, worse instrum

SUBMITTER: Wu B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9116387 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature