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Cognitive function, physical performance, health, and disease: norms from the georgia centenarian study.

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Davey, A; Elias, MF; Siegler, IC; Lele, U; Martin, P; Johnson, MA; Hausman, DB; Poon, LW
Published in: Exp Aging Res
October 2010

This study provides, for the first time, normative data on cognitive functioning and physical performance, health and health behaviors, and diseases from a population-based sample of 244 centenarians and near-centenarians (M age = 100.5 years, range 98-108, 84.8% women, 21.3% African American) from the Georgia Centenarian Study. Data are presented by the four key dimensions of gender, race, residence, and educational attainment. Results illustrate the profound range of functioning in this age group and indicate considerable differences as a function of each dimension. Bivariate models generally suggest that cognitive functioning and physical performance is higher for men than women; whites than African Americans; community than facility residents; and those with more than high school education than those with less than high school education. Multivariate models elaborate that differences in educational attainment generally account for the largest proportion of variance in cognitive functioning and residential status generally accounts for the largest proportion of variance in physical performance measures. Addition of health variables seldom increases variance accounted for in each domain beyond these four dimensions.

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Exp Aging Res

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EISSN

1096-4657

Publication Date

October 2010

Volume

36

Issue

4

Start / End Page

394 / 425

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Sex Factors
  • Risk Assessment
  • Reference Values
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Motor Activity
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Health Surveys
  • Health Status
 

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Davey, A., Elias, M. F., Siegler, I. C., Lele, U., Martin, P., Johnson, M. A., … Poon, L. W. (2010). Cognitive function, physical performance, health, and disease: norms from the georgia centenarian study. Exp Aging Res, 36(4), 394–425. https://doi.org/10.1080/0361073X.2010.509010
Davey, Adam, Merrill F. Elias, Ilene C. Siegler, Uday Lele, Peter Martin, Mary Ann Johnson, Dorothy B. Hausman, and Leonard W. Poon. “Cognitive function, physical performance, health, and disease: norms from the georgia centenarian study.Exp Aging Res 36, no. 4 (October 2010): 394–425. https://doi.org/10.1080/0361073X.2010.509010.
Davey A, Elias MF, Siegler IC, Lele U, Martin P, Johnson MA, et al. Cognitive function, physical performance, health, and disease: norms from the georgia centenarian study. Exp Aging Res. 2010 Oct;36(4):394–425.
Davey, Adam, et al. “Cognitive function, physical performance, health, and disease: norms from the georgia centenarian study.Exp Aging Res, vol. 36, no. 4, Oct. 2010, pp. 394–425. Pubmed, doi:10.1080/0361073X.2010.509010.
Davey A, Elias MF, Siegler IC, Lele U, Martin P, Johnson MA, Hausman DB, Poon LW. Cognitive function, physical performance, health, and disease: norms from the georgia centenarian study. Exp Aging Res. 2010 Oct;36(4):394–425.

Published In

Exp Aging Res

DOI

EISSN

1096-4657

Publication Date

October 2010

Volume

36

Issue

4

Start / End Page

394 / 425

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Sex Factors
  • Risk Assessment
  • Reference Values
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Motor Activity
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Health Surveys
  • Health Status