Rodriguez, Francisca S. and Roehr, Susanne and Dragano, Nico and Schmidt, Boerge and Becher, Heiko and Schikowski, Tamara and Gastell, Sylvia and Harth, Volker and Hoven, Hanno and Linseisen, Jakob and Greiser, Karina Halina and Leitzmann, Michael and Bohmann, Patricia and Castell, Stefanie and Heise, Jana-Kristin and Krist, Lilian and Keil, Thomas and Karch, Andre and Teismann, Henning and Velasquez, Ilais Moreno and Pischon, Tobias and Peters, Annette and Fuehrer, Amand and Mikolajczyk, Rafael and Guenther, Kathrin and Brand, Tilman and Meinke-Franze, Claudia and Schipf, Sabine and Grabe, Hans J. and Brenner, Hermann and Koch-Gallenkamp, Lena and Berger, Klaus and Wagner, Michael and Katzke, Verena and Lieb, Wolfgang and Pabst, Alexander and Riedel-Heller, Steffi G. (2025) Low income, being without employment, and living alone: how they are associated with cognitive functioning-Results from the German national cohort (NAKO). AGING NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITION, 32 (4). pp. 542-557. ISSN 1382-5585, 1744-4128
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Aim was to investigate to what extent cognitive functioning differs by three socioeconomic conditions: low income, being without employment, and living alone. A total of N = 158,144 participants of the population-based German National Cohort (NAKO) provided data on socioeconomic conditions and completed cognitive tests. Multivariable confounder-adjusted regression analyses indicated that cognitive functioning was lower in those with low income (b = -0.21) compared to not having low income, living alone (b = -0.04) compared to not living alone, and being without employment (b = -0.09) compared to being employed. An interaction with age indicated that the difference in cognitive functioning was getting larger with age between the income groups and living alone status groups. Accordingly, the three conditions appear independently associated with poorer cognitive functioning. Pathways of how cognitive health in this population group can be improved need to be explored.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | SOCIOECONOMIC-STATUS; OLDER-ADULTS; LIFE-COURSE; POVERTY; DECLINE; EDUCATION; DEMENTIA; STRESS; RISK; Socioeconomic; poverty; low income; unemployment; living alone; cognitive functioning |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Institut für Epidemiologie und Präventivmedizin |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Apr 2026 12:04 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Apr 2026 12:04 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/65705 |
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