Memory Decline and Depressive Symptoms in a Nationally Representative Sample of Older Adults: The Health and Retirement Study (1998–2004)
Author(s) -
Hector M. González,
Mary Elizabeth Bowen,
Gwenith G. Fisher
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.026
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1421-9824
pISSN - 1420-8008
DOI - 10.1159/000115976
Subject(s) - cognitive decline , depression (economics) , episodic memory , psychology , cognition , population , health and retirement study , gerontology , depressive symptoms , recall , geriatric depression scale , cohort , disease , dementia , psychiatry , clinical psychology , medicine , demography , economics , macroeconomics , environmental health , sociology , cognitive psychology
Inconsistencies in the relationship between depression and cognitive decline may exist because the expected cognitive domains at risk have not been specified in previous study designs. We aimed to examine the relationship between depressive symptoms and verbal episodic memory functioning over time.
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