Open AccessEarly Life Development in a Multiethnic Sample and the Relation to Late Life Cognition
Author(s) -
Rebecca J. Melrose,
Paul Brewster,
María J. Marquine,
Anna MacKayBrandt,
Bruce Reed,
Sarah Tomaszewski Farias,
Dan Mungas
Publication year - 2014
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/gbt126
Subject(s) - cognition , socioeconomic status , psychology , developmental psychology , quality of life (healthcare) , dementia , cognitive development , association (psychology) , gerontology , demography , medicine , psychiatry , sociology , pathology , psychotherapist , disease , population
Poor quality of early life conditions has been associated with poorer late life cognition and increased risk of dementia. Early life physical development can be captured using adult measures of height and head circumference. Availability of resources may be reflected by socioeconomic indicators, such as parental education and family size. We sought to determine the association between early life development and experience and late life semantic memory, episodic memory, and executive functioning abilities, as well as rate of cognitive decline.
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