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Exploring Individuals’ Willingness to Engage in Interventions to Improve Cognitive Health and Prolong Late-Life Independence: an Extension of Harrell, Kmetz, and Boot (2019)

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  1. One participant did not report their age.

  2. Here and elsewhere, adjusted Greenhouse–Geisser corrected degrees of freedom are reported when the assumption of sphericity is violated.

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We gratefully acknowledge support from the National Institute on Aging, Project CREATE IV – Center for Research and Education on Aging and Technology Enhancement (www.create-center.org, NIA P01 AG017211).

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    Danielle Onafraychuk, Edie C. Sanders & Walter R. Boot

  2. Psychology and Associate of the Alabama Research Institute on Aging, The University of Alabama, Gordon Palmer Hall, Box 870348, AL, 35487, Tuscaloosa, USA

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Onafraychuk, D., Sanders, E.C., Harrell, E.R. et al. Exploring Individuals’ Willingness to Engage in Interventions to Improve Cognitive Health and Prolong Late-Life Independence: an Extension of Harrell, Kmetz, and Boot (2019). J Cogn Enhanc 5, 259–265 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41465-020-00197-x

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