“…The influence of marital status is more contentious between studies, as some have reported greater performances among married individuals (Fratiglioni, Wang, Ericsson, Maytan, & Winblad, 2000;Nguyen et al, 2002;Ribeiro et al, 2010;Wu, Lan, Chen, Chiu, & Lan, 2011). Information regarding employment status is rather scarce (Freitas, Simões, Alves & Santana, 2012); individuals currently employed and individuals with occupations with high intellectual demands seem to achieve better scores on the MMSE (Anderson et al, 2007;Moraes et al, 2010). Finally, it is difficult to investigate the influence of geographical variables on cognitive tests and international inter-study comparison has revealed itself as meaningless due to the specificities of the populations and territories.…”