Social engagement before and after dementia diagnosis in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Ruth A Hackett, Andrew Steptoe, Dorina Cadar and Daisy Fancourt

PLOS ONE, 2019, vol. 14, issue 8, 1-12

Abstract: Background: Social engagement protects against dementia onset. Less is known about patterns of social engagement around the time of dementia diagnosis. We investigated face-to-face and telephone contact at three times (pre-diagnosis, at report of diagnosis, 2 years post-diagnosis) in individuals who developed dementia and a comparison group. Methods: Social engagement was assessed at waves 2–7 of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing in 4171 individuals aged 50 and older. Dementia was ascertained by either self-reported physician diagnosis or through an informant evaluation of a participant’s functional and cognitive performance compared with a few years earlier. Generalized estimating equations were used to examine differences by group, time, and group-by-time interactions. Results: The dementia group reported less face-to-face (p

Date: 2019
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