BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to examine relationships in old age between Quality of Life (QoL), childhood IQ, current cognitive performance and @entity1109 , and to estimate possible contributions to these relationships made by sex, education, socioeconomic deprivation, current living group, sex, and balance and 6m walk time. METHODS: We conducted a follow-up study on 88 community residents without @entity303 who were survivors of the Aberdeen City 1921 birth cohort. QoL was measured by the Schedule for the Evaluation of Individual QoL-Direct Weighting (SEIQoL-DW), current cognition by MMSE and Raven's Progressive Matrices (RPM), childhood IQ, @entity1109 as assessed by the Hospital Anxiety and @entity308 Scale (HADS), and optimism by the Life Orientation Test (LOT); we included balance, 6m walk time and demographic data. RESULTS: QoL was better in @entity1 than in @entity1 . @entity1 reported more @entity148 and @entity308 . QoL correlated significantly with current cognition measured by RPM, childhood intelligence, @entity308 , optimism and balance. The best model to predict QoL relied on childhood intelligence (13.4% of the variance) and was improved by addition of HADS (8.8 %) and LOT (4.8 %). Other variables did not contribute to the prediction of QoL. CONCLUSION: In the absence of @entity303 , childhood IQ, HADS and LOT explain 26.9% of the variance in QoL as reported by community-resident old @entity1 . The direction of association between current @entity308 and lower QoL is uncertain. Lower childhood IQ may contribute to coping less well with later life. Lower QoL is not an invariable concomitant of mild @entity73 .

Quality of Life in healthy old age: relationships with childhood IQ, XXXX and optimism.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['women', 'Women', 'people', 'men'] @entity308 :: ('MESH:D003866', 'Disease') :: ['Depression', 'depression', 'anxiety and depressive symptoms'] @entity303 :: ('MESH:D003704', 'Disease') :: ['dementia'] @entity73 :: ('MESH:D003072', 'Disease') :: ['cognitive decline'] @entity1109 :: ('MESH:D012678', 'Disease') :: ['minor psychological symptoms'] @entity148 :: ('MESH:D001008', 'Disease') :: ['anxiety']
@entity1109 :: (MESH:D012678,Disease) :: ['minor psychological symptoms']
