Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Low neighborhood-level socioeconomic status has been associated with poorer health, reduced physical activity, increased psychological stress, and less neighborhood-based social support. These outcomes are correlates of late life cognition, but few studies have specifically investigated the neighborhood as a unique source of explanatory variance in cognitive aging. This study supplemented baseline cognitive data from the ACTIVE (Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly) study with neighborhood-level data to investigate (1) whether neighborhood socioeconomic position (SEP) predicts cognitive level, and if so, whether it differentially predicts performance in general and specific domains of cognition and (2) whether neighborhood SEP predicts differences in response to short-term cognitive intervention for memory, reasoning, or processing speed. Neighborhood SEP positively predicted vocabulary, but did not predict other general or specific measures of cognitive level, and did not predict individual differences in response to cognitive intervention.
Source: Journal of Aging Research
DOI: 10.1155/2012/435826
Authors: Shannon M. Sisco, Michael Marsiske
Institution: University of Florida
Language: English
Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,000
Funders: Indiana University, University of Florida, Johns Hopkins University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of Alabama, New England Research Institutes, National Institutes of Health, School of Medicine, Indiana University, National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Nursing Research
Awards: G1178011849, G1319838187, G1435247252, G1481077784, G1524881744, G15558500, G1594817550, G1662264296, G2059235590, G2143433026, ACTIVE Phase III: HRC Field Site, G2436271668, G2468508770, G266511797, G2753163592, G2825283322, G2947510555, ACTIVE Phase III: JHU Field Site, G2978231805, G3138920146, ACTIVE Phase III: IU Field Site, G3731346569, G3786485971, G4373630487, G4399567751, G4438921143, G4484813513, G4522469772, G4560073240, G4601050373, G493244713, G500886902, G5063299133, G5083241055, G5176264939, G5337856074, G5463399080, G5585373989, G5589293727, G5594708967, G5741906230, G5743904449, ACTIVE Phase III: UAB Field Site, ACTIVE Phase III: PSU Field Site, G5972892295, G5999587005, G6073878459, G625660684, ACTIVE Phase III: UF/WSU Field Site, G6581352804, G6707646703, G6709451946, G6711873528, G6815342741, G6901311257, G6955624694, G7105884649, G7248731667, G7326979531, G7383905298, G7851876924, G7871987278, Neighborhood Influences on Cognitive Level and Training Gains in the ACTIVE Study, G8088090059, G8102293900, G8160371053, G8554006334, Research Training in Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Cognition in Aging, MCI, and Alzheimer's Disease, ACTIVE Coordinating Center, G8880810126, G8897098091, University of Florida Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC), G945420865
OpenAlex ID: W2145188761