The Mediating Role of Proxy Respondents on the Relationship between Cognitive Function and Self-Rated Health.

Measuring the experiences of people with cognitive impairment is challenging in survey research due to the limiting features of cognitive impairment. While having a proxy respondent helps address attrition-related measurement challenges in survey research, findings indicate that proxies report worse subjectively-rated health for people with cognitive impairment compared to individuals with comparable levels of cognitive impairment without a proxy. Future research may benefit from exploring optimal proxy-respondent characteristics.