The influence of childhood intelligence, social class, education and social mobility on memory and memory decline in late life
| Autor: | Lawrence J. Whalley, Michael Hogan, Roger T. Staff |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Gerontology Aging Longitudinal study Social Determinants of Health media_common.quotation_subject Intelligence Social class 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Memory Risk Factors Humans Medicine Longitudinal Studies 030212 general & internal medicine Social determinants of health Child Socioeconomic status Aged media_common Memory Disorders business.industry Age Factors General Medicine Middle Aged Protective Factors Resilience Psychological Social mobility Social Mobility Test (assessment) Scotland Social Class Cognitive Aging Educational Status Female Observational study Psychological resilience Geriatrics and Gerontology business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Research Paper |
| Zdroj: | Age and Ageing. 47:847-852 |
| ISSN: | 1468-2834 0002-0729 |
| Popis: | In an observational longitudinal study of a sub-sample of the Aberdeen 1936 birth cohort, from age 62 to 77 years, we investigated childhood intelligence, social class, education, life-course social mobility, memory test performance and memory decline in late life. We examined 388 local residents who had attended school in Aberdeen in 1947 and measured Auditory-Verbal Learning Test (AVLT) at recruitment age about 64 years and up to five times until age about 77 years. Better performance at age about 64 on AVLT was predicted by early socioeconomic status (SES), social mobility and childhood intelligence. The trajectory of AVLT decline was steeper in those who had received less education. This relationship was independent of childhood ability, sex, SES in childhood and social mobility. The protection of memory by education suggests that education supports resilience to age-related cognitive impairment. Upward social mobility does not enhance this effect, suggesting that resilience to age-related decline may be established in early life. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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