A life-course study of cognitive reserve in dementia: Dementia incidence in inpatient registers and mmse test scores in a clinical study in sweden

Summary, in English

Cognitive reserve helps mitigate the impact of pathology on the clinical expression of dementia. Education and occupational complexity are considered as contributors to reserve, although it has been argued that cognitive reserve is likely formed over the life-course. A life-course model of cognitive reserve in dementia risk has not yet been tested. We apply a life-course model and examine if school grades around age 10, formal educational attainment, and lifetime occupational complexity affect dementia incidence in inpatient registers.

• Author: Serhiy Dekhtyar; Hui-Xin Wang; Kirk Scott; Anna Goodman; Ilona Kuopil; Agneta Herlitz
• Department/s: Centre for Economic Demography; Department of Economic History
• Publishing year: 2015
• Language: English
• Pages: 200-201
• Publication/Series: Alzheimer's & Dementia
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 7
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jalz.2015.07.192
• Document type: Journal article (letter)
• Publisher: Wiley
• Topic: Social Sciences Interdisciplinary; Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology); Neurosciences
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1552-5279