ArticleEuropean journal of population = Revue europeenne de demographie2018
Cognition, Health, and Well-Being in a Rural Sub-Saharan African Population.
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- Unexplored avenues: a narrative review of cognition and mood in postmenopausal African women with female genital circumcision/mutilation/cutting.Frontiers in global women's health · 2024Pooled it
- Midlife cognitive testing in Africa: validity of the Harmonised Cognitive Assessment Protocol in the Kenya Life Panel Survey.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Intensity of care and the health status of caregivers to elderly rural South Africans.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Resilience, Accelerated Aging and Persistently Poor Health: Diverse Trajectories of Health in Malawi.Population and development review · 2023Article
- The path between socioeconomic inequality and cognitive function: A mediation analysis based on the HAALSI cohort in rural South Africa.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Cognition and Cognitive Changes in a Low-Income Sub-Saharan African Aging Population.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2023Article
- The Association of Reproductive Aging with Cognitive Function in Sub-Saharan African Women.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022Review
- Cohort profile: the mature adults cohort of the Malawi longitudinal study of families and health (MLSFH-MAC).BMJ open · 2020Article
- Impact of Optimism on Cognitive Performance of People Living in Rural Area: Findings From a 20-Year Study in US Adults.Gerontology & geriatric medicineArticle
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Abstract
Cognitive health is an important dimension of well-being in older ages, but few studies have investigated the demography of cognitive health in sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) growing population of mature adults (= persons age 45+). We use data from the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH) to document the age and gender patterns of cognitive health, the contextual and life-course correlates of poor cognitive health, and the understudied linkages between cognitive and physical/mental well-being. Surprisingly, the age-pattern of decline in cognitive health is broadly similar to that observed in the U.S. We also find that women have substantially worse cognitive health than men, and experience a steeper age-gradient in cognitive ability. Strong social ties and exposure to socially complex environments are associated with higher cognitive health, as is higher socioeconomic status. Poor cognitive health is associated with adverse social and economic well-being outcomes such as less nutrition intake, lower income, and reduced work efforts even in this subsistence agriculture context. Lower levels of cognitive health are also strongly associated with increased levels of depression and anxiety, and are associated with worse physical health measured through both self-reports and physical performance. Our findings suggest that cognition plays a key-but understudied-role in shaping late-life well-being in low-income populations.
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