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Life Course Socioeconomic Position and Mid-Late Life Cognitive Function in Eastern Europe.

Horvat, P; Richards, M; Malyutina, S; Pajak, A; Kubinova, R; Tamosiunas, A; Pikhart, H; ... Bobak, M; + view all (2014) Life Course Socioeconomic Position and Mid-Late Life Cognitive Function in Eastern Europe. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci , 69 (3) pp. 470-481. 10.1093/geronb/gbu014. Green open access

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Abstract

Objectives.To investigate whether the positive relation between socioeconomic position (SEP) across the life course and later life cognitive function observed in Western populations exists in former communist countries with apparently smaller income inequalities.Method.Structural equation modeling analysis of cross-sectional data on 30,846 participants aged 45-78 years in four Central and Eastern European centers: Novosibirsk (Russia), Krakow (Poland), Kaunas (Lithuania), and six Czech towns from the HAPIEE (Health, Alcohol, and Psychosocial factors In Eastern Europe) study. SEP was measured using self-reported childhood (maternal education, household amenities), adult (education), and older adult (current material circumstances) indicators. Latent variable for cognition was constructed from word recall, animal naming, and letter search.

Type: Article
Title: Life Course Socioeconomic Position and Mid-Late Life Cognitive Function in Eastern Europe.
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbu014
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbu014
Additional information: © The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Cognitive aging, Eastern Europe, Life course, Socioeconomic position
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1422453
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