...Emilia Frangos; Armando Barriguete-Mélendez; Patrice Debré; Luis Miguel Gutiérrez Robledo; André-Laurent Parodi; Jean-Pierre Michel After the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, during which the severity of the disease in certain countries was attributed to a lack of basic education...

... and education on cognitive skills simply add up or deviate from simple additivity. Methods: We used data from waves 1 to 7 (except wave 3) of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) collected between 2004 and 2017. SHARE includes 140,000 persons aged ≥50 years from 28 European countries...

... with PIM classification according to the EU(7)-PIM list. Results: In the overall study population, higher education was associated with lower odds of PIM use (odds ratio [OR] 0.93, confidence interval [CI] 95% 0.87–0.99, p = 0.017). Falls (OR 1.53, CI 95% 1.08–2.17, p = 0.016), frailty/prefrailty (OR 1.68...

... literacy scores. Higher scores are indicative of a higher health literacy. Across the 24-week intervention period, the control group attended a 90-min health education class, taught according to the didactic teaching method by a licensed physical therapist. The themes of the individual program...

... effect of education on this relationship and which brain structures support health numeracy. Methods: We examined 70 healthy older persons (66% females; mean ± SD: age, 75.73 ± 4.52 years; education, 12.21 ± 2.94 years). The participants underwent a T1-weighted 3-T MRI and a neuropsychological assessment...

... of education acquired earlier in the life course, the present study aims to identify and track trends in the prevalence of marriage, divorce/separation, and widowhood among sociodemographic subgroups; link the occurrence of those transitions with mental health; and test the influence of educational attainment...

... attrition on frailty index trajectories and gaps related to socio-economic status (education) therein among older adults in Europe. Methods: A total of 64,143 observations from 21,044 respondents (50+) from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe across 12 years of follow-up (2004–2015...

..., 95% CI = 1.66-2.11) and associations of low education and low income with frailty (adjusted OR for low education = 1.76, 95% CI = 1.05-2.97; adjusted OR for low income = 1.90, 95% CI = 1.20-3.01; both for survivor analyses). Sex-stratified analyses indicated that socioeconomic inequalities were...

...Domantas Jasilionis; Vladimir M. Shkolnikov In the second half of the 20th century, the advances in human longevity observed have been accompanied by an increase in the disparities between countries and regions. Education is one of the strongest predictors of life expectancy. Studies have shown...

... of the current study is to test potential mediating effects of depression and level of education on the association between ethnicity and dementia. Methods: The sample for this study, consisting of 2,796 community-dwelling elderly people aged 60 years and older, was drawn from a cross-sectional national survey...

... published findings on genetic, health and lifestyle predictors of cognitive change in late adulthood. Methods: Studies reporting data on education, health, blood pressure, activity and apolipoprotein E (APOE) as predictors of cognitive change were reviewed. A total of 34 studies were identified...

... status and its relationship to cognitive function in elderly people living in service flats, and (2) the effect of a 9-hour educational program given to personnel working in the service flats. Methods: Of 93 eligible subjects, 28 agreed to participate (age 81 ± 7 years, 75% women). Body mass index (BMI...