ArticleJournal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS2021
Positive Psychosocial Factors and Cognitive Decline in Ethnically Diverse Older Adults.
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- Functional social support and cognitive function in middle- and older-aged adults: a systematic review of cross-sectional and cohort studies.Systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
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- Factors Affecting Resilience and Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias.Annals of neurology · 2024Review
- Biopsychosocial contexts influence adult cognitive function concurrently and longitudinally.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2024Article
- Emotional health and its association with neurocognition in Hispanic and non-Hispanic White people with HIV.Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS · 2024Article
- The Relationship Between Suboptimal Social Networks and Postoperative Delirium: The PNDABLE Study.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectivesPrevious cross-sectional studies have documented associations between positive psychosocial factors, such as self-efficacy and emotional support, and late-life cognition. Further, the magnitudes of concurrent associations may differ across racial and ethnic groups that differ in Alzheimer's disease risk. The goals of this longitudinal study were to characterize prospective associations between positive psychosocial factors and cognitive decline and explicitly test for differential impact across race and ethnicity.
methods578 older adults (42% non-Hispanic Black, 31% non-Hispanic White, and 28% Hispanic) in the Washington Heights-Inwood Columbia Aging Project completed cognitive and psychosocial measures from the NIH Toolbox and standard neuropsychological tests over 2.4 years. Latent difference scores were used to model associations between positive psychosocial factors and cognitive decline controlling for baseline cognition, sociodemographics, depressive symptoms, physical health, and other positive psychosocial factors. Multiple-group modeling was used to test interactions between the positive psychosocial factors and race/ethnicity.
resultsHigher NIH Toolbox Friendship scores predicted less episodic memory decline. One standard deviation increase in friendship corresponded to 6 fewer years of memory aging. This association did not significantly differ across racial/ethnic groups.
conclusionsThis longitudinal study provides support for the potential importance of friendships for subsequent episodic memory trajectories among older adults from three ethnic groups. Further study into culturally informed interventions is needed to investigate whether and how friend networks may be targeted to promote cognitive health in late life.
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