Cognition and mortality in older people: the Sydney Memory and Ageing Study | Zendy

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Cognition and mortality in older people: the Sydney Memory and Ageing Study

Author(s) -

Michael H. Connors,

Perminder S. Sachdev,

Nicole A. Kochan,

Jing Xu,

Brian Draper,

Henry Brodaty

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

age and ageing

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014

H-Index - 143

eISSN - 1468-2834

pISSN - 0002-0729

DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afv139

Subject(s) - dementia , cognitive decline , medicine , cognition , gerontology , depression (economics) , cohort study , cohort , population , neuropsychology , effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance , cognitive test , psychiatry , environmental health , disease , economics , macroeconomics

Both cognitive ability and cognitive decline have been shown to predict mortality in older people. As dementia, a major form of cognitive decline, has an established association with shorter survival, it is unclear the extent to which cognitive ability and cognitive decline predict mortality in the absence of dementia.

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