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Socioeconomic Status Across the Life Course and Cognitive Function Among Older Adults An Examination of the Latency, Pathways, and Accumulation Hypotheses

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Investigating the relationship between life course socioeconomic status (SES) and cognitive function among older adults in the United States over a 12-year observation period showed that cognitive function varied within-persons and between-Persons.
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Objective: This study investigated the relationship between life course socioeconomic status (SES) and cognitive function among older adults in the United States over a 12-year observation period. ...

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