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Assessment of Lifestyle Experiences across Lifespan and Cognitive Ageing in the Indian Context

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  • Avanthi Paplikar
  • Divya Ballal
  • Feba Varghese
  • Jala Sireesha
  • Ramya Dwivedi
  • Amulya Rajan
  • Shailaja Mekala
  • Faheem Arshad
  • Subhash Kaul
  • Suvarna Alladi

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With rising numbers of elderly and dementia in developing societies, there is a need to understand factors protective against dementia. Evidence suggests that lifetime cognitive activities including education, occupation, and complex leisure activities contribute to cognitive reserve. However, these factors are understudied in India. This paper describes the validation of the Lifetime of Experiences Questionnaire (LEQ), a comprehensive measure of complex lifetime activities, to the Indian cultural context. It also examines the relationship between lifetime experiences and cognition among 52 healthy elderly and 30 dementia patients. High inter-rater (κ=0.923, p

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  • Avanthi Paplikar & Divya Ballal & Feba Varghese & Jala Sireesha & Ramya Dwivedi & Amulya Rajan & Shailaja Mekala & Faheem Arshad & Subhash Kaul & Suvarna Alladi, 2020. "Assessment of Lifestyle Experiences across Lifespan and Cognitive Ageing in the Indian Context," Psychology and Developing Societies, , vol. 32(2), pages 308-330, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:psydev:v:32:y:2020:i:2:p:308-330
    DOI: 10.1177/0971333620937512
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