Longitudinal associations between cancer history and cognitive functioning among older adults

This study aimed to examine (1) whether cancer history accelerates older adults’ rates of cognitive decline over time and (2) whether chemotherapy increases older cancer patients’/ survivors’ rates of cognitive decline over time. This longitudinal study drew a subsample of 8811 adults aged 65 or older from Wave 6 of the Health and Retirement Study in 2002 and followed biennually until Wave 13 in 2016. Linear mixed-effects models were performed...