Overview and Findings from the Rush Memory and Aging Project

• DOI: 10.2174/156720512801322663
• Publication Date: 2013-07-25T00:49:52Z
• Authors: David A. Bennett; Julie A. Schneider; Aron S. Buchman; Lisa L. Barnes; Patricia A. Boyle; Robert S. Wilson
• Keywords: Cognitive aging

The Memory and Aging Project is a longitudinal, epidemiologic clinical-pathologic cohort study of common chronic conditions aging with an emphasis on decline in cognitive motor function risk Alzheimer’s disease (AD). In this manuscript, we first summarize the design methods. Then, present data on: 1) relation to cognition, disability, death; 2) factors outcomes, disability 3) neuropathologic indices outcomes; 4) indices; 5) additional findings. findings are discussed contextualized. Keywords: Dementia, Alzheimer's disease, function, epidemiology, study, Catholic clergy, spinal cord, congestive heart failure