How Welfare Regimes Moderate the Associations Between Cognitive Aging, Education, and Occupation.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Previous studies have shown the importance of individual markers of cognitive reserve, such as education and occupation, for cognitive health in old age. However, there has been only little investigation so far on how this relationship varies across contexts.

Methods

We analyzed data from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe, using second-order latent growth models, to assess the moderating role of welfare regimes on the relationship between education and occupation skill level in explaining overall cognitive functioning and decline in old age. Our sample includes 13 European countries using data from 5 regular waves of the survey (2004-2007 and 2011-2015) and 2 retrospective ones (2008-2009 and 2017). Cognitive functioning was modeled as a laten

SUBMITTER: Orsholits D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9757157 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature