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Effect of a Purpose in Life on Risk of Incident Alzheimer Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment in Community-Dwelling Older Persons
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CONTEXT: Emerging data suggest that psychological and experiential factors are associated with risk of Alzheimer disease (AD), but the association of purpose in life with incident AD is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that greater purpose in life is associated with a reduced risk of AD. DESIGN: Prospective, longitudinal epidemiologic study of aging. SETTING: Senior housing facilities and residences across the greater Chicago metropolitan area. PARTICIPANTS: More than 900 community-dwelling older persons without dementia from the Rush Memory and Aging Project. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Participants underwent baseline evaluations of purpose in life and up to 7 years of detailed annual follow-up clinical evaluations to document incident AD. In subsequent analyses, we examined the association of purpose in life with the precursor to AD, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and the rate of change in cognitive function. RESULTS: During up to 7 years of follow-up (mean, 4.0 years), 155 of 951 persons (16.3%) developed AD. In a proportional hazards model adjusted for age, sex, and education, greater purpose in life was associated with a substantially reduced risk of AD (hazard ratio, 0.48; 95% confidence interval, 0.33-0.69; P < .001). Thus, a person with a high score on the purpose in life measure (score = 4.2, 90th percentile) was approximately 2.4 times more likely to remain free of AD than was a person with a low score (score = 3.0, 10th percentile). This association did not vary along demographic lines and persisted after the addition of terms for depressive symptoms, neuroticism, social network size, and number of chronic medical conditions. In subsequent models, purpose in life also was associated with a reduced risk of MCI (hazard ratio, 0.71; 95% confidence interval, 0.53-0.95; P = .02) and a slower rate of cognitive decline (mean [SE] global cognition estimate, 0.03 [0.01], P < .01). CONCLUSION: Greater purpose in life is associated with a reduced risk of AD and MCI in community-dwelling older persons.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Boyle, P. A., Buchman, A. S., Barnes, L. L., & Bennett, D. A.
- Affiliations
- Rush University Medical Center (US)
- Venue
- Archives of General Psychiatry
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 2010-03-01
- Volume
- 67
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 304
- ISSN
- 0003-990X (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC2897172
- OpenAlex
- W2129597363
- Cited by
- 580
- References
- 33
- Citations by year
- 2026: 29 · 2025: 35 · 2024: 38 · 2023: 89 · 2022: 56 · 2021: 47 · 2020: 45 · 2019: 29 · 2018: 41 · 2017: 39 · 2016: 32 · 2015: 28 · 2014: 23 · 2013: 20 · 2012: 15
- FWCI
- 10.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Archives of General Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (R01AG017917, R01-AG-24480, R01‐AG17917, K23 AG 23040, K23AG023040, R01AG024480, R01AG034374)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
- Keywords
- meaning of life, Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, cognitive decline, community-dwelling older adults, dementia risk, psychological factors
- MeSH terms
- Age Factors, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Aging, Alzheimer Disease, Chicago, Cognition Disorders, Data Collection, Female, Goals, Humans, Life Style, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Prospective Studies, Psychometrics, Quality of Life, Risk Factors, Severity of Illness Index, Urban Population, Proportional Hazards Models, Housing for the Elderly, Intention
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