Influence of social support on cognitive change and mortality in old age: results from the prospective multicentre cohort study AgeCoDe

Background: Social support has been suggested to positively influence cognition and mortality in old age. However, this suggestion has been questioned due to inconsistent operationalisations of social support among studies and the small number of longitudinal studies available. This study aims to in...

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Main Authors: Eisele, Marion (Author) , Weyerer, Siegfried (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 20 March 2012
In: BMC geriatrics
Year: 2012, Volume: 12
ISSN:1471-2318
DOI:10.1186/1471-2318-12-9
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Author Notes:Marion Eisele, Thomas Zimmermann, Mirjam Köhler, Birgitt Wiese, Kathrin Heser, Franziska Tebarth, Dagmar Weeg, Julia Olbrich, Michael Pentzek, Angela Fuchs, Siegfried Weyerer, Jochen Werle, Hanna Leicht, Hans-Helmut König, Melanie Luppa, Steffi Riedel-Heller, Wolfgang Maier and Martin Scherer, for the AgeCoDe Study Group

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