Delaying Onset of Dementia: Are Two Languages Enough?

Table 2

Age of diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease.

Number of languages spoken	Native English	Native French	Immigrants
1	78.0 (7.0)	72.7 (9.1)	71.4 (8.1)
(𝑛)	(289)	(66)	(23)
2	77.9 (7.5)	75.9 (6.5)	76.5 (8.2)
(𝑛)	(62)	(24)	(81)
3	79.8 (5.6)	79.5 (2.5)	77.8 (6.4)
(𝑛)	(24)	(4)	(39)
≥4	80.7 (3.2)	—	80.9 (5.9)
(𝑛)	(3)	—	(15)

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