Participants and Procedure
We recruited a sample of 1,005 older persons roughly
equally divided across four marital categories (married,
never married, divorced/separated, and widowed) by putting
up advertisements or through referrals by staff in nongovernment
organizations servicing community-dwelling
older persons. They were interviewed individually at home
or at a social center. Although our targets were those aged
60+ years, one individual aged 59 years was also included.
Men and women differed in marital status, c2 (3) = 11.03,
p < .05, with more men than women being married but
fewer being widowed. Characteristics of the sample are
shown in Table 1 .
Measures
Cognitive impairment was