Change in cognitively healthy and cognitively impaired life expectancy in the United States: 2000–2010
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Change in cognitively healthy and cognitively impaired life expectancy in the United States: 2000–2010
OBJECTIVE To determine how cognitively healthy and cognitively impaired life expectancy have changed from 2000 to 2010 among American men and women 65 years of age and over. METHODS The prevalence of dementia, cognitive impairment without dementia (CIND), and normal cognition is determined from the nationally representative data from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Mortality rates...
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عنوان ژورنال: SSM - Population Health
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2352-8273
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2016.10.007