Does attachment get under our skin? Midlife attachment style predicts mild cognitive impairment and cumulative deficit frailty in old age
Erik Buchholz, Carol E. Franz, Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging (VETSA) group · 2025
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Erik Buchholz and Carol Franz ask whether how men bond in midlife forecasts frailty in old age. Their twenty twenty-five study uses the Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging, with over twelve hundred community men. Attachment style, measured at midlife, is the trait under test.
Two frailty outcomes were tracked: mild cognitive impairment and a count of health deficits. Paths through stress, smoking, drinking, doctor visits, and isolation were weighed as go-betweens. If a midlife social trait reaches decades ahead into brain and body frailty, then friendship and trust are not soft extras. They are early markers, and maybe levers, of how aging lands.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Erik Buchholz, Carol E. Franz, Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging (VETSA) group |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |