Laboratory

Population Health

Project

Cognitive Functioning in Middle- and High-Income Countries

Kieron Barclay, Silvia Loi, Carlos Diaz-Venegas, Mikko Myrskylä, Jo Mhairi Hale (MPIDR / University of St Andrews, United Kingdom); in Collaboration with Rebeca Wong, Alejandra Michaels-Obregon, Rafael Samper-Ternent (all: The University of Texas System, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, USA), Neil Kishor Mehta (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)

Cognitive function is among the key health dimensions of aging because it affects the quality of life of older adults. The project investigates the influence of socioeconomic and demographic differences on cognition in middle- and high-income countries. Detailed Description

Publications

Hale, J. M.; Schneider, D. C.; Mehta, N. K.; Myrskylä, M.:

Understanding cognitive impairment in the U.S. through the lenses of intersectionality and (un)conditional cumulative (dis)advantage

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-029. (2022)

Hale, J. M.; Schneider, D. C.; Gampe, J.; Mehta, N. K.; Myrskylä, M.:

Rejoinder to "The Prevalence of Cognitive Impairment Is Not Increasing in the United States: A Critique of Hale et al. (2020)"

Epidemiology 32:5, 717–720. (2021)

Sáenz, J. L.; Díaz-Venegas, C.; Crimmins, E. M.:

Fertility history and cognitive function in late life: the case of Mexico

Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 76:4, e140–e152. (2021)

Hale, J. M.; Schneider, D. C.; Gampe, J.; Mehta, N. K.; Myrskylä, M.:

Trends in the risk of cognitive impairment in the U.S., 1996-2014

Epidemiology 31:5, 745–754. (2020)

Hale, J. M.; Schneider, D. C.; Mehta, N. K.; Myrskylä, M.:

Cognitive impairment in the U.S.: lifetime risk, age at onset, and years impaired

SSM-Population Health 11:100577, 1–9. (2020)

Díaz-Venegas, C.; Downer, B.; Langa, K. M.; Wong, R.:

Cognitive functioning of U.S. adults by race and Hispanic origin

In: Contextualizing health and aging in the Americas: effects of space, time and place, 85–107. Cham: Springer. (2019)

Díaz-Venegas, C.; Semper-Ternent, R.; Michaels-Obregón, A.; Wong, R.:

The effect of educational attainment on cognition of older adults: results from the Mexican Health and Aging Study 2001 and 2012

Aging and Mental Health 23:11, 1586–1594. (2019)

Gerstorf, D.; Drewelies, J.; Düzel, S.; Smith, J.; Wahl, H.-W.; Schilling, O. K.; Kunzmann, U.; Siebert, J. S.; Katzorreck, M.; Eibich, P.; Demuth, I.; Steinhagen-Thiessen, E.; Wagner , G. G.; Lindenberger, U.; Heckhausen, J.; Ram, N.:

Cohort differences in adult-life trajectories of internal and external control beliefs: a tale of more and better maintained internal control and fewer external constraints

Psychology and Aging 34:8, 1090–1108. (2019)

Díaz-Venegas, C.; Schneider, D. C.; Myrskylä, M.; Mehta, N. K.:

Life expectancy with and without cognitive impairment by diabetes status among older Americans

PLoS One 12:12, e0190488–e0190488. (2017)

Hale, J. M.:

Cognitive disparities: the impact of the Great Depression and cumulative inequality on later-life cognitive function

Demography 54:6, 2125–2158. (2017)

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Research

Department Myrskylä
Fertility and Well-Being
Population Health
Research Group: Labor Demography
Digital and Computational Demography (Zagheni)
Migration and Mobility
Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-Being
Joint Research Labs
Demographic Data
Statistical Demography
Independent Research Groups
Research Group: Lifespan Inequalities
Research Group: Kinship Inequalities
Research Group: Gender Inequalities and Fertility