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Low income, being without employment, and living alone: How they are associated with cognitive functioning-Results from the German national cohort (NAKO).
Aging Neuropsychol. Cogn., DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2024.2438825 (2024)
Aim was to investigate to what extent cognitive functioning differs by three socioeconomic conditions: low income, being without employment, and living alone. A total of N = 158,144 participants of the population-based German National Cohort (NAKO) provided data on socioeconomic conditions and completed cognitive tests. Multivariable confounder-adjusted regression analyses indicated that cognitive functioning was lower in those with low income (b = -0.21) compared to not having low income, living alone (b = -0.04) compared to not living alone, and being without employment (b = -0.09) compared to being employed. An interaction with age indicated that the difference in cognitive functioning was getting larger with age between the income groups and living alone status groups. Accordingly, the three conditions appear independently associated with poorer cognitive functioning. Pathways of how cognitive health in this population group can be improved need to be explored.
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Publication type
Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
Keywords
Socioeconomic ; Cognitive Functioning ; Living Alone ; Low Income ; Poverty ; Unemployment; Socioeconomic-status; Older-adults; Life-course; Poverty; Decline; Education; Dementia; Stress; Risk
Language
english
Publication Year
2024
HGF-reported in Year
2024
ISSN (print) / ISBN
1382-5585
e-ISSN
1744-4128
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Publishing Place
2-4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon Ox14 4rn, Oxon, England
Reviewing status
Peer reviewed
Institute(s)
Institute of Epidemiology (EPI)
POF-Topic(s)
30202 - Environmental Health
Research field(s)
Genetics and Epidemiology
PSP Element(s)
G-504000-010
G-504000-007
G-504000-007
Grants
Institutes of the Leibniz Association
Helmholtz Association
Federal states of Germany
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Helmholtz Association
Federal states of Germany
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
WOS ID
001379001200001
Scopus ID
85212257057
PubMed ID
39688104
Erfassungsdatum
2024-12-18