Social connections and risk of incident mild cognitive impairment, dementia, and mortality in 13 longitudinal cohort studies of ageing

Affiliations

• ¹ Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney, Australia.
• ² School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University Melbourne, UNSW Sydney, Australia.
• ³ Center for Studies in Public Health and Aging' René Rachou Research Center, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
• ⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
• ⁵ Department of Geriatric Psychiatry, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
• ⁶ Inserm U1094, IRD UMR270, Univ. Limoges, CHU Limoges, EpiMaCT - Epidemiology of chronic diseases in tropical zone, Institute of Epidemiology and Tropical Neurology, OmegaHealth, Limoges, France.
• ⁷ Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Neuropsychiatric Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, the Sahlgrenska Academy, Centre for Ageing and Health (AGECAP), at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden.
• ⁸ Region Västra Götaland, Psychiatry, Cognition and Old Age Psychiatry Clinic, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.
• ⁹ 1st Department of Neurology, Aiginition Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
• ¹⁰ Taub Institute for Research in Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, The Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
• ¹¹ Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece.
• ¹² Department of Neurology, University of Thessaly, Larisa, Greece.
• ¹³ Department of Neuropsychiatry, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea.
• ¹⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
• ¹⁵ Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, Seoul National University College of Natural Sciences, Seoul, South Korea.
• ¹⁶ Institute of Social Medicine, Occupational Health and Public Health (ISAP), Faculty of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
• ¹⁷ Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
• ¹⁸ Health and Ageing Research Team, School of Psychology, Massey University, Palmerston, New Zealand.
• ¹⁹ Centre for Healthy Aging and Wellness, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• ²⁰ Departments of Psychiatry, Epidemiology, and Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ²¹ Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio, USA.
• ²² Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ²³ Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
• ²⁴ Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Department of Psychological Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
• ²⁵ Department of Psychiatry, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland.
• ²⁶ Department of Health Services and Nursing Science Research, Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP), University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
• ²⁷ Aging Research Center & Division of Physiotherapy, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ²⁸ MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, University College London, London, UK.
• ²⁹ Department of Geriatrics, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Gelderland, The Netherlands.
• ³⁰ Faculty of Medical Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
• ³¹ Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.