APS
2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025
Grandparenthood As a Means of Social Interaction and Its Impacts on Subjective and Objective Measures of Cognition: A Mixed Methods Approach
- Dana Smith
University of South Florida - Teresa Pham
University of South Florida - Orchard Edwina
Yale University - Orchard Edwina
University of California Santa Barbara - Rutherford Helena
Yale University - O'Brien Jennifer
University of South Florida
Abstract
The current study on the effects of grandparenthood on cognition found over-the-phone interaction with grandchildren to be positively associated with enhanced cognitive performance. A reflexive thematic analysis of the qualitative responses found that grandparents characterize their experience as providing opportunities for stimulation that they believe positively affects their cognition.
Aging
