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Appelbaum, Steven H. Wenger, Richard Buitrago, Carolina Pachon and Kaur, Ravneet 2016. The effects of old-age stereotypes on organizational productivity (part three). Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 48, Issue. 6, p. 303.
Appelbaum, Steven H. Wenger, Richard Buitrago, Carolina Pachon and Kaur, Ravneet 2016. The effects of old-age stereotypes on organizational productivity (part two). Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 48, Issue. 5, p. 241.
Appelbaum, Steven H. Wenger, Richard Pachon Buitrago, Carolina and Kaur, Ravneet 2016. The effects of old-age stereotypes on organizational productivity (part one). Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 48, Issue. 4, p. 181.
Arpino, Bruno and Bordone, Valeria 2016. Regular provision of grandchild care and participation in social activities. Review of Economics of the Household,
Bowling, Ann Pikhartova, Jitka and Dodgeon, Brian 2016. Is mid-life social participation associated with cognitive function at age 50? Results from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). BMC Psychology, Vol. 4, Issue. 1,
Chiu, Ching-Ju Hu, Susan C. Wray, Linda A. and Wu, Shang-Te 2016. The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Psychobehavioral Correlates in Buffering Diabetes-Related Cognitive Decline. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Vol. 50, Issue. 3, p. 436.
MAZZUCO, STEFANO MEGGIOLARO, SILVIA ONGARO, FAUSTA and TOFFOLUTTI, VERONICA 2016. Living arrangement and cognitive decline among older people in Europe. Ageing and Society, p. 1.
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Phillips, Natalie A. 2016. The Implications of Cognitive Aging for Listening and the Framework for Understanding Effortful Listening (FUEL). Ear and Hearing, Vol. 37, p. 44S.
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This study analyses the relationships between cognitive performance, social participation and behavioural risks, taking into account age and educational attainment. We examine individual data for 11 European countries and Israel from the first wave of the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The stochastic frontier approach methodology enables us to identify different sources of plasticity on cognitive functioning while taking into account age-related decline in cognitive performance. Several social participation variables were examined: employment status, attending educational courses, doing voluntary or charity work, providing help to family, friends or neighbours, participating in sports, social or other clubs, in a religious organisation and in a political or community organisation, and we controlled for age, education, income, physical activity, body-mass index, smoking and drinking. In the pooled sample, the results clearly show that all kinds of social involvement enhance cognitive functions, in particular in work. Moreover, behavioural risks such as physical inactivity, obesity, smoking or drinking were clearly detrimental to cognitive performance. Models for men and women were run separately. For both genders, all social involvement indicators associated with better cognitive performance. The results varied by countries, however, particularly the signs of the associations with a number of indicators of social involvement and behavioural risks.
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