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Université de Fribourg

The relationship between linguistic ability, multilingualism, and dementia

van den Noort, Maurits ; Vermeire, Katrien ; Staudte, Heike ; Perriard, Benoît ; Bosch, Peggy ; Lim, Sabina

In: Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 2019, vol. 72, no. 4, p. 1041–1044

In a recent article of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, Hack et al. (2019) argue that linguistic ability rather than multilingualism is a significant predictor of dementia. In their longitudinal study, they investigated 325 religious sisters who were older than 75 years of age. Self-reports were used in order to determine multilingualism. They found that speaking two or three languages...

Université de Fribourg

A systematic review on the possible relationship between bilingualism, cognitive decline, and the onset of dementia

Noort, Maurits Van den ; Vermeire, Katrien ; Bosch, Peggy ; Staudte, Heike ; Krajenbrink, Trudy ; Jaswetz, Lars ; Struys, Esli ; Yeo, Sujung ; Barisch, Pia ; Perriard, Benoît ; Lee, Sook-Hyun ; Lim, Sabina

In: Behavioral Sciences, 2019, vol. 9, no. 7, p. 81

A systematic review was conducted to investigate whether bilingualism has a protective effect against cognitive decline in aging and can protect against dementia. We searched the Medline, ScienceDirect, Scopus, and ERIC databases with a cut-off date of 31 March 2019, thereby following the guidelines of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis (PRISMA) protocol....

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Vaccinations: "not just for kids”

Michel, Jean-Pierre

In: Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 2009, vol. 21, no. 3, p. 199-200