ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019
Advantaged socioeconomic conditions in childhood are associated with higher cognitive functioning but stronger cognitive decline in older age.
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- Early life adversity and late life dementia in the Harmonised Cognitive Assessment Protocol network (U.S., China, England and Europe).medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Life course socioeconomic position and cognitive aging in later life: A scoping review.Advances in life course research · 2025Article
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Abstract
Cognitive aging is characterized by large heterogeneity, which may be due to variations in childhood socioeconomic conditions (CSC). Although there is substantial evidence for an effect of CSC on levels of cognitive functioning at older age, results on associations with cognitive decline are mixed. We examined by means of an accelerated longitudinal design the association between CSC and cognitive trajectories from 50 to 96 years. Cognition included two functions generally found to decline with aging: delayed recall and verbal fluency. Data are from six waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), conducted between 2004 and 2015 (
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