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The Influences of Community-Enriched Environment on the Cognitive Trajectories of Elderly People
To examine the influences of community-enriched environment on the cognitive trajectories of the elderly in China, using panel data of 10,057, 3994, 2387, and 1749 older persons aged 65–104 years of the 2005, 2008, 2011, and 2014 waves from the Chinese Longitudinal Health Longevity Survey (CLHLS) an...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8394943/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34444614 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168866 |
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author | Yu, Shuyang Wei, Meng |
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description | To examine the influences of community-enriched environment on the cognitive trajectories of the elderly in China, using panel data of 10,057, 3994, 2387, and 1749 older persons aged 65–104 years of the 2005, 2008, 2011, and 2014 waves from the Chinese Longitudinal Health Longevity Survey (CLHLS) and a growth curve model, the authors analyzed the changing trend of elderly people’s cognitive abilities with age. The influences of community-enriched environments on cognitive abilities were also investigated. Results show that when all the factors are out of consideration except age, for an older person aged 82.5 years, as he/she grows one year older, his/her cognitive abilities will be reduced by 0.139 points, while for one aged 92.5 years, they will be reduced by 0.199 points, which means cognitive abilities decline rapidly as the individuals grow older. The elderly people from communities with enriched environments have higher cognitive levels and slower declining speeds of cognitive abilities than the other elderly people, proving the long-term ability of such environments to facilitate cognitive abilities. An increase in the stimulation of the enriched environment is needed to prevent or slow down the degeneration of cognitive abilities. |
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spelling | pubmed-83949432021-08-28 The Influences of Community-Enriched Environment on the Cognitive Trajectories of Elderly People Yu, Shuyang Wei, Meng Int J Environ Res Public Health Article To examine the influences of community-enriched environment on the cognitive trajectories of the elderly in China, using panel data of 10,057, 3994, 2387, and 1749 older persons aged 65–104 years of the 2005, 2008, 2011, and 2014 waves from the Chinese Longitudinal Health Longevity Survey (CLHLS) and a growth curve model, the authors analyzed the changing trend of elderly people’s cognitive abilities with age. The influences of community-enriched environments on cognitive abilities were also investigated. Results show that when all the factors are out of consideration except age, for an older person aged 82.5 years, as he/she grows one year older, his/her cognitive abilities will be reduced by 0.139 points, while for one aged 92.5 years, they will be reduced by 0.199 points, which means cognitive abilities decline rapidly as the individuals grow older. The elderly people from communities with enriched environments have higher cognitive levels and slower declining speeds of cognitive abilities than the other elderly people, proving the long-term ability of such environments to facilitate cognitive abilities. An increase in the stimulation of the enriched environment is needed to prevent or slow down the degeneration of cognitive abilities. MDPI 2021-08-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8394943/ /pubmed/34444614 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168866 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Yu, Shuyang Wei, Meng The Influences of Community-Enriched Environment on the Cognitive Trajectories of Elderly People |
title | The Influences of Community-Enriched Environment on the Cognitive Trajectories of Elderly People |
title_full | The Influences of Community-Enriched Environment on the Cognitive Trajectories of Elderly People |
title_fullStr | The Influences of Community-Enriched Environment on the Cognitive Trajectories of Elderly People |
title_full_unstemmed | The Influences of Community-Enriched Environment on the Cognitive Trajectories of Elderly People |
title_short | The Influences of Community-Enriched Environment on the Cognitive Trajectories of Elderly People |
title_sort | influences of community-enriched environment on the cognitive trajectories of elderly people |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8394943/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34444614 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168866 |
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