Risk of cognitive declines with retirement: Who declines and why?

Retirement age declines

Consequences of age-related cognitive declines.

Adult age differences in a variety of cognitive abilities are well documented, and many of those abilities have been found to be related to success in the workplace and in everyday life. However, increased age is seldom associated with lower levels of real-world functioning, and the reasons for this lab-life discrepancy are not well understood. This article briefly reviews research concerned wi...

Cognitive Declines Precede and Predict Functional Declines in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease

OBJECTIVE To investigate the temporal ordering of cognitive and functional declines separately in older adults with or without Alzheimer's disease (AD). DESIGN AND SETTING A community-based longitudinal study of aging and dementia in Northern Manhattan (Washington Heights/Hamilton Heights Inwood Columbia Aging Project) and a multicenter, clinic-based longitudinal study of prevalent AD at Colu...

The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle: Anticipated and Actual Declines in Spending at Retirement

The simple one-good model of life-cycle consumption requires “consumption smoothing.” However, British and U.S. households apparently reduce consumption at retirement and the reduction cannot be explained by the life-cycle model. An interpretation is that retirees are surprised by the inadequacy of resources. This interpretation challenges the life-cycle model where consumers are forward lookin...

Common declines

While the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society have highlighted for the British government's attention and beyond the plight of cetaceans in its seas (see pages R780–R781), the government itself acknowledged last month the need for tougher conservation measures for many once common species and habitats in the face of often increasingly alarming decline. The British government announced a doub...