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Do health factors affect memory performance in old age?

✍ Scribed by Marko Jelicic; Cees Jonker; Dorly J. H. Deeg

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 81 KB
Volume: 14
Category: Article
ISSN: 0885-6230
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(199907)14:7<572::aid-gps994>3.0.co;2-7

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✦ Synopsis

Objectives. The aim of this study was to examine the eect 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 eect on memory performance.

Conclusion. Health factors have only a weak relationship with memory performance in older adults.

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