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Posted on August 17, 2016

Working paper explores cognitive health of aging population in Sub-Saharan Africa

Harvard Bell Fellow Collin Payne is lead author on a working paper that investigates the cognitive health of the understudied, growing population of aging adults (+45 years) in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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