Intellectual and physical activities, but not social activities, are associated with better global cognition: a multi-site evaluation of the cognition and lifestyle activity study for seniors in Asia (CLASSA)

Lam LC 1 , Ong PA 2 , Dikot Y 2 , Sofiatin Y 3 , Wang H 4 , Zhao M 4 Show all authors , Li W 5 , Dominguez J 6 , Natividad B 6 , Yusoff S 7 , Fu JL 8 , Senanarong V 9 , Fung AW 1 , Lai K 1

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Psychiatry, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, G/F, Multi-Centre, Tai Po Hospital, Hong Kong, SAR China
  • 2 Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Padjadjaran University, Bandung, Indonesia
  • 3 Department of Epidemiology, Padjadjaran University, Bandung, Indonesia
  • 4 Dementia Care and Research Centre, Peking University Institute of Mental Health (Six Hospital), Beijing Key Laboratory for Translational Research on Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia, Key Laboratory for Mental Health, Ministry of Health (Peking University), Beijing, China
  • 5 Haidan District Mental Health Centre, Beijing, China
  • 6 Institute for Neurosciences, St Luke's Medical Center, Manila, Philippines
  • 7 Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Hospital Sultan Ismail, Johor Bahru, Malaysia
  • 8 Department of Neurology, Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University Schools of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 9 Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
Age Ageing, 2015 Sep;44(5):835-40.
PMID: 26271049 DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afv099

Abstract

population ageing will lead to a leap in the dementia population in Asia. However, information about potentials for low-cost and low-risk interventions is limited.

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