Background: Research into the pathophysiology of age-associated cognitive function and
decline requires a valid estimate of cognitive function. However, this estimation can be …

Cognitive impairment is an important hallmark of dementia, but deterioration of cognition
also occurs frequently in non-demented elderly individuals. In more than 3,000 non …

Objective: This study investigates the association between 5-year change in cognitive
functioning and subsequent mortality. Methods: Four hundred and ninety-three Dutch and …

Objectives. Among the key targets of inquiry in cognitive aging are (1) the description of
cognitive changes with advancing age and (2) the association of such cognitive changes …

Background Understanding the patterns in determinants of survival becomes increasingly
important as the population ages. Dementia is known to shorten survival as is impaired …

We examined the little-tested associations between general cognitive function in middle and
older age and later risk of death from chronic diseases. In the English Longitudinal Study of …

In recent years, epidemiologists have given increased attention to cognition, especially to
the dementing illnesses that occur in old age. Central to this study is the measurement of …

Objectives This study aims to examine cohort differences in cognitive performance and rates
of change in episodic memory, processing speed, inductive reasoning, and general …

Background Maintaining cognitive function is an important aspect of healthy ageing. In this
study, we examined age trajectories of cognitive decline in a large nationally representative …

Objective The extent to which increasing age is associated with impairment in cognitive
function, termed cognitive aging, may have been overestimated in prior studies. The …