Adult Child Financial Disadvantage and the Cognitive Trajectories Among Older Parents in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Adult child socioeconomic status (SES) has been identified as a predictor of older parents' cognitive aging. However, studies have primarily relied on educational attainment as the sole measure of adult child SES. We evaluated the relationship between adult children's financial disadvantage and cognitive outcomes of older parents in the United States.

Methods

We used data from U.S. Health and Retirement Study (2000-2014, n = 15,053 respondents ≥51 years with at least 1 adult child). Adult child financial disadvantage was measured with 3 indicators of extremely low income, unemployment, and lack of homeownership. We used linear mixed models to estimate the association between adult child financial disadvantage and the rate of decline in verbal memory scores, contro

SUBMITTER: Lee AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11304953 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature