This paper reviews different methodological approaches taken to examine terminal decline in cognitive function, and presents new findings from the Bronx Aging Study (BAS). Numerous approaches have been taken to assess mortality effects on cognition: ...
Individual changes in perceptual speed were modeled as a conditional function of age and time-to-death. Alternative time-structured models were evaluated in a Swedish population-based, age-homogeneous sample (Gothenburg H70; N = 764) of individuals ...
We use a statistical model that combines longitudinal and survival analyses to estimate the influence of level and change in cognition on age at death in old and very old individuals. Data are from the Berlin Aging Study, in which an initial sample of 516 ...