You Say Tomato, I Say Radish: Can Brief Cognitive Assessments in the U.S. Health Retirement Study Be Harmonized With Its International Partner Studies?
Lindsay C KobayashiAlden L GrossLaura E GibbonsDoug TommetR Elizabeth SandersSeo-Eun ChoiShubhabrata MukherjeeMaria GlymourJennifer J ManlyLisa F BerkmanPaul K CraneDan M MungasRichard N JonesPublished in: The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences (2021)
The cognitive assessments in the U.S. HRS and its International Partner Studies reflect comparable underlying cognitive constructs. We discuss the assumptions underlying our methods, present alternatives, and future directions for cross-national harmonization of cognitive aging data.