Childbearing Histories and Midlife Cognition: Accounting for Early Life Factors
Selection into specific childbearing experiences partially drives the link between childbearing and cognition at midlife, with cascading implications into later life. We suggest incorporating childbearing and early life factors into models to identify social determinants of memory and cognitive functioning.
Authors
- Drew Ferguson
- Corinne Reczek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5309-3632)
- Joseph D. Wolfe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7392-6937)
- Mieke Beth Thomeer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2777-2628)
- Rui Cao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6875-6662)
Institutions
- University of Alabama at Birmingham (US)
- Institute for Behavioral Medicine (US)
- The Ohio State University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Journals of Gerontology Series B
- Published
- 2024-10-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbae177
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 5.12
Funders
- Ohio State University
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Aging
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development