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Do health factors affect memory performance in old age?
Author(s) -
Jelicic Marko,
Jonker Cees,
Deeg Dorly J. H.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
international journal of geriatric psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1099-1166
pISSN - 0885-6230
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(199907)14:7<572::aid-gps994>3.0.co;2-7
Subject(s) - affect (linguistics) , recall , psychology , test (biology) , gerontology , population , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , medicine , cognitive psychology , environmental health , paleontology , communication , biology
Objectives The aim of this study was to examine the effect of health factors on memory performance in a population‐based sample of 679 older people (mean age=69.2 years). Methods Both subjective and objective indices of health were used as predictor variables. Memory performance was measured with an immediate recall test and a delayed recall test. Results Some of the objective health indices were correlated with performance on the memory tasks, but regression analysis showed that they hardly had a unique effect on memory performance. Conclusion Health factors have only a weak relationship with memory performance in older adults. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.