THE LONG ARMS OF CHILDHOOD INTELLIGENCE AND EDUCATION ON TERMINAL DECLINE: EVIDENCE FROM LOTHIAN BIRTH COHORT 1921

We investigated the heterogeneity of cognitive trajectories at the end of life by assigning individuals into groups according to their cognitive trajectories prior to death. Data were from the Lothian Birth Cohort of 1921. Growth mixture modelling was employed to identify groups of individuals with similar trajectories on the Mini-Mental State Examination in relation to time to death, accounting for childhood intelligence, education,...