Jennifer J. Manly|Nicole Schupf|Ming-X. Tang|Yaakov Stern
Cognitive Decline and Literacy Among Ethnically Diverse Elders
Columbia University Irving Medical Center|Columbia University Irving Medical Center|Columbia University Irving Medical Center|Columbia University Irving Medical Center
researchers genetic environmental influences risk alzheimers disease must prepared growing ethnic racial diversity participants within investigation years education typically served proxy cognitive reserve may one factor influencing risk cognitive decline among aging people however among ethnic minorities years education poor reflection value educational experience native ability study conducted among 1002 ethnically diverse englishspeaking residents northern manhattan cognitively functionally normal baseline evaluation found literacy level better predictor decline memory executive function language skills years education results study suggest ethnically diverse cohort literacy level considered mediator interactions biological environmental factors cognitive decline