Zuelsdorff, M., R. Koscik, O. Okonkwo, P. Peppard, B. Hermann, M. Sager, S. Johnson, and C. Engelman. “Reliability of a Novel Social Activity Questionnaire: Perceived Social Support and Verbal Interaction in the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention.”. Journal of Aging and Health, Vol. 30, no. 2, 2018, pp. 305-20.
Social activity is associated with healthy aging and preserved cognition. Such activity includes a confluence of social support and verbal interaction, each influencing cognition through rarely parsed, mechanistically distinct pathways. We created a novel verbal interaction measure for the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention (WRAP) and assessed reliability of resultant data, a first step toward mechanism-driven examination of social activity as a modifiable predictor of cognitive health.
PubMed: 28553788