Interpersonal, Community, and Societal Stressors Mediate Black-White Memory Disparities.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Structural racism creates contextual stressors that disproportionately affect Black, relative to White, older adults in the United States and may contribute to worse cognitive health. We examined the extent to which interpersonal, community, and societal stressors uniquely explain Black-White disparities in initial memory and memory change.

Methods

The sample included 14,199 non-Latino Black and White older adults (Mage = 68.32, 19.8% Black) from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study who completed psychosocial questionnaires at baseline and a word list memory task every 2 years over an 8-year period. Interpersonal, community, and societal stressors were operationalized as self-reported everyday discrimination, neighborhood physical disorder, and subjective societal

SUBMITTER: Morris EP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11528366 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature