Loneliness and Profiles of Objective and Subjective Memory During Midlife

Karra Harrington,Ruixue Zhaoyang,Nelson Roque,Jacqueline Mogle,Martin Sliwinski

doi:10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1868

Abstract

Loneliness is a risk factor for dementia, however it’s relationship with cognitive health during midlife is unclear. We evaluated whether loneliness was associated with profiles of objective and subjective memory in younger and middle-aged adults. Participants (aged 25 to 64 years) underwent an initial loneliness assessment, followed by 14-days of momentary (5 per day) cognitive assessments (objective memory) and daily ratings of memory (subjective memory). Cluster analysis was conducted using person-level means of objective and subjective memory. Three clusters were identified: (1) highest objective and subjective memory (9%); (2) lowest subjective but not objective memory (84%); (3) lowest objective but not subjective memory (7%).There was a trend for higher levels of loneliness in Cluster 2 relative to Clusters 1 and 3. Results suggest that loneliness is more closely related with subjective than objective memory during midlife and are informative for development of interventions targeting cognitive health. Part of a symposium sponsored by the Measurement, Statistics, and Research Design Interest Group.

Highlights

Project 1: Community Health Advocates participated in a photovoice project that evolved into an invited installation at the Alabama Contemporary Art Center, giving statewide exposure to health issues in communities in South Alabama that had been identified as those with the highest health disparities
This symposium will present a spectrum of approaches to analysis of intensive longitudinal data that can inform models of cognitive aging
All three presentations will draw on data from measurement burst studies that apply our ambulatory cognitive assessment methods in community-based samples

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Introduction

Project 1: Community Health Advocates participated in a photovoice project that evolved into an invited installation at the Alabama Contemporary Art Center, giving statewide exposure to health issues in communities in South Alabama that had been identified as those with the highest health disparities. USE OF PHOTO ELICITATION WITHIN PHENOMENOLOGY: DEPICTING LIVED EXPERIENCE OF OLDER LEARNERS IN AN AFU Andrea Zakrajsek, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States While the use of photographs is an emerging data generation method within phenomenology (Plunkett, Leipert & Ray, 2013; Shulze, 2007), research that incorporates photo elicitation to inform the understanding of the lived experience is limited.

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