Terminal Decline From Within- and Between-Person Perspectives, Accounting for Incident Dementia
Author(s) -
Andrea M. Piccinin,
Graciela Muniz,
Fiona E. Matthews,
Boo Johansson
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the journals of gerontology series b
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1758-5368
pISSN - 1079-5014
DOI - 10.1093/geronb/gbr010
Subject(s) - dementia , terminal (telecommunication) , perspective (graphical) , cognitive decline , cognition , psychology , demography , history , sociology , medicine , neuroscience , mathematics , disease , computer science , telecommunications , geometry , pathology
The terminal cognitive decline hypothesis has been debated for almost 50 years. This hypothesis implies a change in rate of decline within an individual. Therefore, we examine the hypothesis from a within-person perspective using a time to death chronological structure.
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