Risk of Dementia Differs across Lifestyle Engagement Subgroups: A Latent Class and Time to Event Analysis in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.
Kyle D MooredKaren Bandeen-RocheBeth E SnitzSteven T DeKoskyJeff D WilliamsonAnnette L FitzpatrickMichelle C CarlsonPublished in: The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences (2021)
Older adults highly engaged in intellectual activities, but not necessarily social activities, had the lowest risk of incident dementia. Activity frequency scores provided only slightly better case discrimination than activity variety scores and latent classes. Latent classes of older adults differed by their amount and types of activities, which may inform intervention design.