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Sensory-cognitive associations are only weakly mediated or moderated by social factors in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.

Author(s): Hämäläinen A, Phillips N, Wittich W, Pichora-Fuller MK, Mick P

Sci Rep. 2019 Dec 23;9(1):19660 Authors: Hämäläinen A, Phillips N, Wittich W, Pichora-Fuller MK, Mick P

Article GUID: 31873079
Detection of vision and /or hearing loss using the interRAI Community Health Assessment aligns well with common behavioral vision/hearing measurements.

Author(s): Urqueta Alfaro A, Guthrie DM, Phillips NA, Pichora-Fuller MK, Mick P, McGraw C, Wittich W

PLoS One. 2019;14(10):e0223123 Authors: Urqueta Alfaro A, Guthrie DM, Phillips NA, Pichora-Fuller MK, Mick P, McGraw C, Wittich W

Article GUID: 31581243
Associations between sensory loss and social networks, participation, support, and loneliness: Analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.

Author(s): Mick P, Parfyonov M, Wittich W, Phillips N, Guthrie D, Kathleen Pichora-Fuller M

Can Fam Physician. 2018 01;64(1):e33-e41 Authors: Mick P, Parfyonov M, Wittich W, Phillips N, Guthrie D, Kathleen Pichora-Fuller M

Article GUID: 29358266
Title:Sensory-cognitive associations are only weakly mediated or moderated by social factors in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.
Authors:Hämäläinen A,  Phillips N,  Wittich W,  Pichora-Fuller MK,  Mick P
Link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31873079?dopt=Abstract
DOI:10.1038/s41598-019-55696-5
Category:Sci Rep
PMID:31873079
Dept Affiliation: PSYCHOLOGY
1 School of Optometry, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada.
2 Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
3 Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
4 Department of Surgery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. paul.mick@usask.ca.

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Sensory-cognitive associations are only weakly mediated or moderated by social factors in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.

Sci Rep. 2019 Dec 23;9(1):19660

Authors: Hämäläinen A, Phillips N, Wittich W, Pichora-Fuller MK, Mick P

Abstract

Sensory and cognitive function both tend to decline with increasing age. Sensory impairments are risk factors for age-related cognitive decline and dementia. One hypothesis about sensory-cognitive associations is that sensory loss results in social isolation which, in turn, is a risk factor for cognitive decline. We tested whether social factors are associated with cognitive and sensory function, and whether sensory-cognitive associations are mediated or moderated by social factors. We used cross-sectional data from 30,029 participants in the Canadian Longitudinal Study of Aging, aged 45-85 years, who had no reported cognitive impairment or diagnosis of dementia. We found strong independent associations of self-reported social variables with hearing (pure-tone audiometry), vision (pinhole-corrected visual acuity), and executive function and weaker associations with memory. The moderating and mediating effects of social variables on sensory-cognitive associations were weak and mostly non-significant, but social factors could be slightly more important for females and older people. Partial retirement (relative to full retirement or not being retired) may have protective effects on cognition in the presence of hearing loss. These findings confirm the association between social factors and sensory and cognitive measures. However, support is weak for the hypothesis that social factors shape sensory-cognitive associations.

PMID: 31873079 [PubMed - in process]