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The Current and Retrospective Cognitive Reserve (2CR) survey and its relationship with cognitive and mood measures
Cognitive Reserve (CR) is often assessed with surveys spanning demographic, lifestyle, and socio-behavioral variables. The role of both past and...
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Confirmatory factor analysis with missing data in a small sample: cognitive reserve in people with Down Syndrome
The presence of missing data and small sample sizes are very common in social and health sciences. Concurrently to present a methodology to solve the...
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Gendered life courses and cognitive functioning in later life: the role of context-specific gender norms and lifetime employment
With increasing life expectancy, dementia poses an epidemiological challenge. As a cure has not been developed, the investigation into preventive...
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Resilient Cognitive Aging in Latinx and Mexican American Populations
This chapter examines cognitive health and cognitive impairment in Latinx and Mexican American populations, as well as interventions designed to...
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Exploring the Relationship Between Living Arrangements and Cognitive Function in Older Adults of Kermanshah City (2022–2023)
ObjectivesThe cognitive function of older adults is an important indicator of healthy aging. Living arrangements have been identified as a...
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Associations Between Country where Education is Obtained and Cognitive Functioning Among South American and Caribbean Older Adults Living in the U.S
The increasing prevalence of AD among Hispanics calls for a need for examining factors that affect cognitive functioning and risk of AD among...
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Polypharmacy, drug-drug interactions, anticholinergic burden and cognitive outcomes: a snapshot from a community-dwelling sample of older men and women in northern Italy
Polypharmacy (PP) use is very common in older people and may lead to drug-drug interactions (DDIs) and anticholinergic burden (ACB) that may affect...
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Reliability of Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination III in differentiating between dementia, mild cognitive impairment and older adults who have not reported cognitive problems
Diagnosing dementia can be challenging for clinicians, given the array of factors that contribute to changes in cognitive function. The Addenbrooke’s...
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Ageing and Reserves
In this chapter we elaborate on our conceptual view on vulnerability being the result of insufficient reserve build-up across the life course in...
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Testing the Effect of Learning Conditions and Individual Motor/Cognitive Differences on Knap** Skill Acquisition
Stone tools provide key evidence of human cognitive evolution but remain challenging to interpret. Stone tool skill-learning has been understudied...
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Association of Cognitive Impairment with Migrant Status Among Older Adults in India: A Cross-Sectional Study
Among various health implications for an older adult, cognitive impairment and related dementias are significant public health concerns and lack due...
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Heritage, Birthplace, Age at Migration, and Education as Life Course Mechanisms Influencing Cognitive Aging Among Latinos
Latinos are the fastest-growing segment of older adults in the United States and are at high risk for cognitive impairment (CI). Although research on...
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The social management of complex uncertainty: Central Bank similarity and crisis liquidity swaps at the Federal Reserve
During the global financial crisis, the Federal Reserve issued billions of dollars in liquidity swap agreements with foreign central banks, serving...
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Older Workers with Physically Demanding Jobs and their Cognitive Functioning
Although employment can provide older people with both financial and nonfinancial rewards, it is questionable whether those benefits extend to all...
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Working beyond SPA and the trajectories of cognitive and mental health of UK pensioners: Do gender, choice, and occupational status matter?
We assessed the association between work status beyond state pension age (SPA) and the long-term trajectories of cognitive and mental health for men...
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Can discourse processing performance serve as an early marker of Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment? A systematic review of text comprehension
A number of linguistic and cognitive deficits have been reported during the course of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and its preceding stage of mild...
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A Familiar Landscape in the Brave New World: Ethics of Cognitive Enhancement Introduction
Despite limited evidence of efficacy, the use of cognitive enhancement (CE) has captured the imagination of the public and policymakers. This chapter...
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Rural and Urban Differences in Cognitive Healthy Life Expectancies Among Older Adults in Mexico
Mexico has experienced rapid demographic change over the past century. One key trend that has shifted the Mexican population has been rapid...
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Neuroticism and Quality of Life: Testing for Mediated Effects of Anxiety in Older Adults without Cognitive Impairment
Plasticity has been related to some compensatory behavioral changes in aging that might occur, in many fields, personality included. Literature also...
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Associations and correlates of general versus specific successful ageing components
The heterogeneity in the operationalisation of successful ageing (SA) hinders a straightforward examination of SA associations and correlates, and in...
