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Cohort differences in cognitive aging and terminal decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study.
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Life span researchers have long been interested in how and why fundamental aspects of human ontogeny differ between cohorts of people who have lived through different historical epochs. When examined at the same age, later born cohorts are often cognitively and physically fitter than earlier born cohorts. Less is known, however, about cohort differences in the rate of cognitive aging and if, at the very end of life, pervasive mortality-related processes overshadow and minimize cohort differences. We used data on 5 primary mental abilities from the Seattle Longitudinal Study (Schaie, 2005) to compare both age-related and mortality-related changes between earlier born cohorts (1886-1913) and later born cohorts (1914-1948). Our models covary for several individual and cohort differences in central indicators of life expectancy, education, health, and gender. Age-related growth models corroborate and extend earlier findings by documenting level differences at age 70 of up to 0.50 SD and less steep rates of cognitive aging on all abilities between 50 and 80 years of age favoring the later born cohort. In contrast, mortality-related models provide limited support for positive cohort differences. The later born cohort showed steeper mortality-related declines. We discuss possible reasons why often reported positive secular trends in age-related processes may not generalize to the vulnerable segment of the population that is close to death and suggest routes for further inquiry.
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In the Seattle Longitudinal Study, later-born cohorts (1914–1948) had higher cognitive levels at age 70 and shallower age-related declines from 50 to 80 than earlier-born cohorts (1886–1913), but these advantages largely did not extend to terminal decline. In mortality-related models, positive cohort differences appeared only for verbal meaning, while later-born participants showed steeper terminal declines on four of five abilities.
Key findings
- Age-related growth models showed later-born cohorts outperformed earlier-born cohorts at age 70 by up to 0.50 SD on four of five primary mental abilities, with cohort intercept differences ranging from 2.353 for fluency to 5.818 for reasoning; number ability was the exception.
- Later-born cohorts also had shallower linear age-related declines on all five abilities, with effects ranging from 0.060 for number to 0.231 for verbal meaning, and less pronounced concave curvature on reasoning, number, and verbal meaning.
- Mortality-related models provided limited support for positive cohort differences: later-born participants outperformed earlier-born participants at 3 years before death only on verbal meaning (γ07 = 2.660), with no significant cohort differences for spatial orientation, inductive reasoning, or word fluency.
- Later-born participants scored 0.465 SD lower on number ability at 3 years before death and experienced steeper linear terminal decline on four of five abilities, with effect sizes from 0.247 for spatial orientation to 0.446 for number ability; they also showed greater convex curvature on all five abilities.
Methods
- Data came from the Seattle Longitudinal Study, a cohort-sequential panel launched in 1956 with eight waves at 7-year intervals through 2005 (49 years). The analyzed subsample compared participants born 1886–1913 with those born 1914–1948; age models used N = 1,980 and terminal-decline models used N = 891.
- Cognitive outcomes were five Thurstone Primary Mental Abilities subtests—spatial orientation, inductive reasoning, word fluency, number, and verbal meaning—scaled to T scores (M = 50, SD = 10).
- Multilevel growth curve models estimated linear and quadratic change over age (centered at 70) and time to death (centered at 3 years before death), with cohort and covariates including education, circulatory disease, cancer, gender, and, for mortality models, age at study entry and age at death; models were fit with SAS Proc Mixed.
Limitations
- The paper states that the SLS sample was recruited through one large HMO in the Pacific Northwest, was community-dwelling and approximately represented the upper 75% of the socioeconomic spectrum, and may not be equally representative of the cohorts; the later-born terminal subsample died at younger ages and may have been less healthy, and covariates may only partially capture selectivity.
- The paper also states that terminal models had lower statistical power, fewer participants and observations, no more than five age-model and four mortality-model data points per person, 7-year measurement intervals that may miss accelerations, and quadratic models that may poorly approximate terminal decline as a phase transition; the study was descriptive rather than causal, lacked direct data on qualitative education, modeled health as ever-diagnosed rather than severity or decline, and examined only the cognitive domain.
- Evident from the text: age and mortality models were based on different, only partly overlapping subsamples and were not directly compared, so age-related and terminal-decline findings are not within the same analytic sample.
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“Schaie, Willis, and Pennak (2005) reported cohort differences in rates of cognitive aging among SLS participants that typically favored later born cohorts, particularly on reasoning and verbal meaning abilities.”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging
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- Partly supportedcites Schaie, Willis, and Pennak (2005) sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
In “Cohort Differences in Rate of Age-Related Change” (page unavailable), the paper reports a difference in aging trajectories between older cohorts, with the slope particularly favoring the later-born cohort for verbal meaning. It also reports gains in inductive reasoning for later-born cohorts, but describes those as differences in performance level, not clearly as differences in rates of cognitive aging. Thus the claim’s emphasis on reasoning as an aging-rate finding is not fully supported. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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“In contrast, in the last years of life no differences in average levels of cognitive functioning were apparent on three of the five PMAs, and evidence of negative secular trends emerged.”
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“no significant cohort differences in ability levels were found for spatial orientation, inductive reasoning, and word fluency.”
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“A second implication arising from the approach we chose to define our cohorts is that the earlier born cohort primarily died in the 1980s or before (median year of death = 1987), whereas the later born cohort primarily died in the 1990s or after (median year of death = 2001).”
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“the later born cohort was characterized by greater convex curvature on all five abilities (e.g., reasoning: −0.014).”
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“The overall pattern that emerged in the terminal decline models relative to the cognitive aging models indicated very few positive secular trends.”
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“the concave curvature was somewhat less pronounced for the later born cohort on three of the five abilities tested (reasoning, 0.004; number, 0.004; verbal, 0.008).”
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“birth cohort related positively to intercepts and linear age-related changes in four of the five abilities.”
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“In particular, the later born cohort performed lower on number ability and showed steeper mortality-related declines on all five abilities.”
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“all models indicate a prototypical trajectory that is characterized by linear decline with some acceleration.”
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“gender differences in cognitive functioning have long been documented, with men typically outperforming women on tasks assessing visuospatial and arithmetric processing, whereas women typically outperform men on tasks involving reasoning and verbal abilities”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > The Current Study
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- Partly supportedcites Maitland, Herlitz, Nyberg, Backman, & Nilsson, 2004 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Discussion reports that women outperformed men on verbal fluency, supporting the verbal-ability portion of the claim. The paper's comparisons concern declarative memory; the passages do not establish a female advantage in reasoning or a male advantage in visuospatial or arithmetic processing. (LLM, conf=0.86)
- Partly supportedcites Meinz & Salthouse, 1998 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Gender Effects section reports a male advantage on spatial tasks, and the Discussion describes a male advantage on quantitative measures and reports prior findings of a female advantage in verbal abilities. But this study found that males outperformed females on reasoning tasks, while its differences in verbal fluency and knowledge were not significant. No page numbers are available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“Zelinski and Kennison (2007) applied growth models to data from the Long Beach Longitudinal Study (LBLS) and reported that the rate of cognitive aging from age 55 to age 87 on measures of reasoning, spatial abilities, and vocabulary showed minimal if any differences between age-matched cohorts born 1893–1923 and those born 1908–1940.”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging
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The Method (Participants) identifies age-matched Long Beach Longitudinal Study cohorts born in 1893–1923 and 1908–1940, analyzed across ages 55–87. The Results report no cohort-by-age interaction for reasoning or space; vocabulary had a significant but small interaction in the older age range (d = .16). This supports the claim of minimal, rather than no, differences in rates of decline. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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“Following notions of cognitive reserve (Hall et al., 2009; Stern et al., 1999), later born cohorts may enter such phases of precipitous decline later than earlier born cohorts.”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Discussion > Limitations and Outlook
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- Partly supportedcites Hall et al., 2009 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results and Discussion (page unavailable) report that greater cognitive activity was associated with a later onset of accelerated memory decline among participants who developed dementia. The paper supports the cognitive-reserve rationale, but it does not compare earlier- and later-born cohorts or establish that later-born cohorts enter this phase later. (LLM, conf=0.85)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Stern et al., 1999 source
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“empirical evidence indicates that disability hazards are indeed lower for later born cohorts”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Cohort Differences in Terminal Cognitive Decline
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Crimmins et al., 1996 source
- Could not verifycites Graham, Blakely, Davis, Sporle, & Pearce, 2004 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Statistical methods section models mortality hazards but functional limitation prevalence, not disability hazards. The Changes between 1981 and 1996 section compares prevalence across survey years; it does not compare disability hazards by birth cohort. Searches for cohort-specific disability incidence and hazards found no such result in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.76)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Manton et al., 2008 source
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“the negative coefficient for gender indicates that men, on average, outperformed women on measures of spatial orientation (γ04 = −2.745) and number (γ04 = −1.020)”
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“For cognitive aging, our results suggest systematic and substantial positive trends in cohort levels and in cohort changes.”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Discussion > Synopsis
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“With the exception of number ability, cohort differences in intercept ranged between 2.353 for fluency and 5.818 for reasoning, indicating that the later born cohort outperformed the earlier born cohort at age 70 by up to half a standard deviation.”
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“The later born cohort was favored both in level of cognitive functioning at age 70 years and in rate of cognitive decline.”
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“having died at an older age related to both lower levels of cognitive capacity at 3 years prior to death and steeper rates of terminal decline (e.g., for word fluency: γ02 = −0.276; γl2 = −0.006).”
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“Cohorts also differed significantly in linear rates of cognitive aging. Effects ranged between 0.060 for number and 0.231 for verbal meaning, each being indicative of shallower cognitive aging trajectories for SLS participants born in 1914 or later.”
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“For terminal cognitive decline, in contrast, our findings suggest a less optimistic outlook, with very little evidence of positive historical effects and several more consistent indications of negative secular trends.”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Discussion > Synopsis
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“the linear component of decline for reasoning amounted to about a quarter of a standard deviation per 10 years of age (e.g., γ10 = −0.297), which together with some concave curvature (γ20 = − 0.007) brought the average individual to an ability level at age 70 (γ00 = 43.722) that was more than half a standard deviation below the mean for all cross-sectional SLS participants”
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“the positive gender coefficient shows that women performed, on average, better than men on tasks assessing reasoning (γ04 = 2.035), fluency (γ04 = 3.602), and verbal meaning (γ04 = 2.257).”
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“average rates of mortality-related linear decline ranged between γ10 = −0.298 for reasoning and γ10 = −0.853 for verbal meaning, and all measures showed accelerations in decline (i.e., quadratic change, e.g., γ20 = −0.020 for verbal meaning).”
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“It must be noted that our study is primarily descriptive in nature and was not designed to tie cohort differences to particular causal mechanisms.”
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“It is possible, for example, that individuals in the later born cohort were more likely to die from aggressive forms of cancer and to experience steeper terminal decline.”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Discussion > Limitations and Outlook
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“The broader conceptual argument for such an examination is borrowed from the compression-of-morbidity perspective, according to which positive secular trends result in a delayed onset of chronic diseases and an increasingly short period of morbidity at the very end of life (Fries, 1980).”
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“To examine if secular trends emerge in terminal decline that are independent of known cohort differences, we statistically controlled for these differences in our models (i.e., age at Time 1 [T1] and age at death were used as covariates)”
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“Our models covary for several individual and cohort differences in central indicators of life expectancy, education, health, and gender.”
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“Although secular trends would have suggested longer life expectancies, participants in our later born cohort had died at younger ages than those in the earlier born cohort, suggesting that this subsample was probably less representative and included relatively more unhealthy participants.”
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“Interaction terms with the cohort variable were tested for all covariates, with only statistically significant terms retained in the final models.”
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“Such quantitative differences in schooling may underlie cohort differences in intellectual performance (e.g., by promoting cognitive reserve; Rönnlund, Nyberg, Bäckman, & Nilsson, 2005; Stern, Albert, Tang, & Tsai, 1999).”
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“Our analyses indicate that initial cohort differences in cognitive performance are maintained throughout aging and are even exacerbated with advancing age by shallower age-related declines among individuals born later.”
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“Participants were community-dwelling individuals in reasonably good health who approximately represent the upper 75% of the socio-economic spectrum.”
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“Annual incidence rates for all forms of cancer had reached an all-time high for people who had entered old age in the 1980s and 1990s (Altekruse et al., 2009).”
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“Conceptually, this finding is consistent with life span tenets about the vulnerabilities and constraints that appear in very old age and at the end of life (Baltes & Smith, 2003).”
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“but some studies indeed have reported gender-differential change”
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“A less positive selection of later born generations could have led to lower average levels of functioning for members of this generation, thereby offsetting positive secular trends.”
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“Less consistent evidence has been gathered regarding gender differences in cognitive change in later adulthood and old age”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > The Current Study
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Finkel, Reynolds, McArdle, Gatz, & Pederson, 2003 source
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“Given that health-related indices are among the factors most consistently linked to adult cognitive changes (for review, see Anstey & Christensen, 2000)”
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“If so, positive secular trends for verbal meaning may simply have persisted because verbal abilities typically show particularly strong positive secular effect (for a recent meta-analysis, see Uttl & Van Alstine, 2003) that may not get completely washed out by mortality effects.”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Discussion > Cohort Differences in Terminal Cognitive Decline
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Uttl & Van Alstine, 2003 source
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“In a similar vein, verbal abilities are more likely to be “practiced” until the end of life as compared with, for example, spatial abilities.”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Discussion > Cohort Differences in Terminal Cognitive Decline
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“It is well established in the cognitive literature that older adults typically show steep declines in cognitive functioning in the years before death (see Bäckman & MacDonald, 2006).”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Discussion > Cohort Differences in Terminal Cognitive Decline
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Bäckman & MacDonald, 2006 source
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“If participants in the later born cohort for the age models were indeed unhealthy, the positive secular trends documented over chronological age were underestimating effect sizes in the target population.”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Discussion > Limitations and Outlook
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“Previous, more fine-grained analyses had revealed that number skills reached a peak with the 1924 birth cohort and showed negative cohort differences thereafter.”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Discussion > Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging
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- Not matchedcites Schaie, 1994, 2005
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“the confounding of age effects and cohort effects constitutes a central threat to internal and external validity”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Abstract
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“For the earlier born cohort, minor forms of disease may already implicate steep cognitive declines.”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Discussion > Possible Factors Underlying Cohort Differences
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“We note that age and mortality models are based on different subsamples that only partly overlap. Thus, the two change models were not directly compared with one another”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Method > Measures
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“Overall, the data provide a reasonably large sample of observations on which to examine cohort differences in change.”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Method > Data Analysis
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“Given that verbal meaning is the PMA that is conceptually closest to the crystallized ability domain (Schaie et al., 2005), our results are also consistent with the notion that later born cohorts have greater cognitive reserve, which may mitigate nearness-to-death effects particularly for acculturated abilities (see also Stern et al., 1999).”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Discussion > Cohort Differences in Terminal Cognitive Decline
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- Not matchedcites Schaie et al., 2005
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Stern et al., 1999 source
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“The precautionary steps we took to adjust for this possibility were to include age at assessment, age at death, and the presence of circulatory diseases and cancer as covariates into our models.”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Discussion > Limitations and Outlook
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In the paper
“We note that the inclusion of age at study entry, age at death, education, circulatory disease, cancer, and gender into our models served to covary for possible confounds and were also attrition-informative variables.”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Method > Data Analysis
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“note that the later born cohort likely was still somewhat favored regarding our research questions.”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Method > Data Preparation
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“As a consequence, cohort differences may also have existed in the treatment of terminal illnesses such as cancer (e.g., chemotherapy, beta blockers), possible cognitive side effects of such treatments, the length of terminal illness and the age at which cognitive pathologies and dementia set in, or place of death (home vs. hospital vs. nursing home).”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Discussion > Limitations and Outlook
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“However, once terminal decline has set in, the amount of decline may then be steeper among those born later (e.g., because they have more to lose).”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Discussion > Limitations and Outlook
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“Furthermore, the 7-year intervals between measurement occasions may be too long to fully capture any “accelerations” in how the mortality-related processes unfold.”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Discussion > Limitations and Outlook
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“In contrast, positive secular trends that may have existed at an earlier point in life may be offset or even reversed.”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Discussion > Cohort Differences in Terminal Cognitive Decline
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“Cardiovascular and major circulatory diseases, such as heart disease and stroke, have shown persistent declines over the past 30 years, particularly among men”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > The Current Study
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Aldwin, Spiro, & Park, 2006
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Manton et al., 2008 source
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“Finally, the suitability of the quadratic change models for the study of terminal decline might also be viewed as a suboptimal approximation of the terminal decline phenomena—which imply discrete shifts in the rate of decline, a phase transition—rather than as “continuous” (and invariant in time) changes in the rate of change.”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Discussion > Limitations and Outlook
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“One way to interpret our results is that previously higher levels of functioning are not maintained during manufactured survival.”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Discussion > Cohort Differences in Terminal Cognitive Decline
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“Such a scenario would even be consistent with the pattern found in our single-phase models.”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Discussion > Limitations and Outlook
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“major legislative changes in the first 20 years of the 20th century (e.g., compulsory school attendance, extended length of the school year) contributed to cohort differences in educational attainment.”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > The Current Study
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“However, cohorts not only differ in such quantitative aspects of education but often also have experienced qualitatively different educational systems (e.g., shift from rote learning to more participatory strategies, such as discovery learning; see Emirbayer, 1992; Schaie, 2008) for which we unfortunately have not had any direct data.”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Discussion > Possible Factors Underlying Cohort Differences
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Emirbayer, 1992 source
- Not matchedcites Schaie, 2008
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In the paper
“Provided sufficient technological support, members of the later born cohort may have survived impairments or diseases that have resulted in death among members of earlier born cohorts.”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Discussion > Cohort Differences in Terminal Cognitive Decline
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“All tests showed high test–retest reliabilities over 1 month (based on N = 705; r ≥ .78; see Schaie, 2005).”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Method > Measures
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Schaie, 2005 source
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“Interrater reliabilities were high (Cronbach’s α > .90; for details, see Bosworth & Schaie, 1997; Hertzog, Schaie, & Gribbin, 1978).”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Method > Measures
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“For the later born cohort, in contrast, morbidity-related cognitive declines may not set in until diseases become severe, probably because of advances in health care.”
§ Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study > Discussion > Possible Factors Underlying Cohort Differences
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The authors state this as an assumption.
Incomplete longitudinal data were missing at random.
“under the assumption that incomplete data were missing at random (Little & Rubin, 1987; McArdle, 1994).”
The authors state this as an assumption.
Period or time-of-measurement effects can be ignored.
“Making the simplifying assumption of ignoring period or time-of-measurement effects (for discussion, see Schaie & Herzog, 1983)”
Statistics recomputed
Every reported test result, recomputed from its test statistic and degrees of freedom. A result shows as not adding up only once an independent check has confirmed it.
- ConsistentF(1, 5346) = 122.7reported p < .001 · recomputed p < .001
“F(1, 5346) = 122.70, p < .001”
- ConsistentF(1, 2509) = 7.56reported p < .01 · recomputed p = .006
“F(1, 2509) = 7.56, p < .01”
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Birth-year range changes from 1886 to 1883
MinorThe methods define the earliest included birth year as 1886, but the discussion describes the analyzed individuals as born as early as 1883.
“individuals born between 1883 and 1948.”
“were born between 1886 and 1913 (earlier born cohort) or 1914 and 1948 (later born cohort)”
Number ability is said to lack positive cohort effects despite a positive rate effect
MinorThe discussion says number ability showed no evidence of positive cohort effects. The results report a significant positive cohort difference in its rate of cognitive aging, favoring the later-born cohort.
“The only measure that did not reveal evidence for positive cohort effects was number ability.”
“Cohorts also differed significantly in linear rates of cognitive aging. Effects ranged between 0.060 for number and 0.231 for verbal meaning, each being indicative of shallower cognitive aging trajectories for SLS participants born in 1914 or later.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Gerstorf, D., Ram, N., Hoppmann, C., Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W.
- Affiliations
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- University of Washington (US)
- Venue
- Developmental Psychology
- Published
- 2011
- Volume
- 47
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1026-1041
- ISSN
- 0012-1649 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-0599
- PMC
- PMC3134559
- OpenAlex
- W2096560961
- Semantic Scholar
- 2ab94d5387d2bb601150eab791cf97bb782fede8
- Cited by
- 154
- References
- 84
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 9.07
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Developmental Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (RC1-AG035645, R21-AG032379, R21-AG033109)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Keywords
- cohort differences, cognitive aging, terminal decline, Seattle Longitudinal Study, primary mental abilities, secular trends, life expectancy, older adults, birth cohort
- MeSH terms
- Age Factors, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Aging, Cognition, Cognition Disorders, Female, Humans, Life Expectancy, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Middle Aged, Neuropsychological Tests, Spatial Behavior, Time Factors, Washington, Cohort Studies
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