Association of Childhood Exposure to School Racial Segregation with Late-Life Cognitive Outcomes among Older Americans.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Disparities in cognition, including dementia occurrence, persist between White and Black older adults, and are possibly influenced by early educational differences stemming from structural racism. However, the relationship between school racial segregation and later-life cognition remains underexplored.

Objective

To investigate the association between childhood contextual exposure to school racial segregation and cognitive outcomes in later life.

Design setting and participants

Data from 16,625 non-Hispanic White (hereafter, White) and 3,335 non-Hispanic Black (hereafter, Black) Americans aged 65 or older were analyzed from the Health and Retirement Study.

Exposures

State-level White-Black dissimilarity index for public elementary schools in the late

SUBMITTER: Lin Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11213034 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature