ArticleJournal of aging and health2022
The Longitudinal Association of Late-Life Visual and Hearing Difficulty and Cognitive Function: The Role of Social Isolation.
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- Sensory Difficulty, Social and Physical Activity, and Dementia Risk Among Older Adults.Journal of aging and health · 2026Article
- Assessing the Mediating Roles of Global Sensory Impairment, Social Isolation, and Loneliness in the Association Between Education and Cognitive Function.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2026Article
- Sensory impairment and cognitive-state transitions in middle-aged and older adults: a multistate Markov analysis of the health and retirement study.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2026Article
- Profiles of social isolation and loneliness as moderators of the longitudinal association between uncorrected hearing impairment and cognitive aging.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Visual Impairment and Cognitive Function in Aging Adults: Sex and Age Differences in Mediating Effect of Social Isolation and Depression.American journal of ophthalmology · 2025Article
- Sensory Deprivation in the Elderly Population of the Republic of Serbia: Sociodemographic Factors as Key to Understanding Sensory Challenges.Iranian journal of public health · 2024Article
- Depression, loneliness, and lower social activity as partial mediators of the association between visual impairment and cognitive decline.International journal of geriatric psychiatry · 2024Article
- Longitudinal Analysis of Social Isolation and Cognitive Functioning among Hispanic Older Adults with Sensory Impairments.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Bidirectional associations between hearing difficulty and cognitive function in Chinese adults: a longitudinal study.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Article
- Effects of long-term individual housing of middle-aged femaleFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Hearing Impairment and Cognitive Function: Mediating Role of Social Isolation and Depression.American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementiasArticle
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Abstract
objectivesSensory impairments are prevalent among older adults and have been associated with cognitive challenges in later life, yet mechanisms are less well understood. We examined the mediating role of social isolation in the longitudinal relationship between self-reported sensory difficulty and impaired cognitive functioning among older adults.
methodsData were taken from the NHATS Study, an annual survey of Medicare beneficiaries' age ≥ 65. Participants (
resultsAll sensory difficulties were negatively associated with all cognitive functioning measures cross-sectionally through social isolation. Longitudinally, vision difficulty and dual sensory difficulty were indirectly associated with cognitive functioning across time. Hearing difficulty had no longitudinal indirect associations with cognitive functioning through social isolation. DISCUSSION: Social isolation is an important pathway through which late-life vision difficulty is associated with decreased cognitive function.
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