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KMID : 0895320150240010105
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Korean Journal of Research in Gerontology
2015 Volume.24 No. 1 p.105 ~ p.132
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A Conceptual Review on Association between Terminal Cognitive Decline and Prediction of Mortality Risk
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Youn Ga-Hyun
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The primary factors for successful aging would be to maintain higher physical and cognitive functioning across the life course while minimizing health risks and disability. It could make old adults maintain independence until the end of their life. Ways to successful aging might be dependent upon choosing the healthy life styles rather than inherited factors. The phenomena of declining or dropping in cognitive performance at the end of life would be found from many old adults, and it is predictive of mortality risk. The phenomena have several meanings that they might have suffered from at least a couple of chronic diseases and might not concern about health for the second half of their life while they were young. The concept of the terminal cognitive decline was discussed in the context of the successful aging and its association with chronic diseases in this paper.
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