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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		How years of poverty may affect cognitive decline later in life
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:01:02
	Publish Date:		2016-11-20 18:00:00
	Description:		People who have lived in poverty through their youth and midlife – may be at greater risk of cognitive decline when they get older. That’s according to Kristine Yaffe, a psychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco. Yaffe has been following a group of young adults from 18 to 30 years old, until they reached their 50s and discovered a warning pattern. "What we found is those people who, most of the time, or some of the time were in the poverty range, or in hardship did slightly worse on the cognitive testing at midlife." The researchers tested memory, organizational skills and brain processing speed and are now working on interpreting these results. "Does this mean this is just the way people are and it’ll stay this way? Does this mean it’s the beginning of something that If that’s the case, Yaffe says catching early signs of cognitive decline is very important for prevention and treatment later on."
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