Bridging Social Capital Potential and Alzheimer's Disease Mortality Rates.

ABSTRACT: Geographic disparities in Alzheimer's disease are often attributed to sociodemographic differences across communities or unequal access to opportunity structures whose use serves as protective mechanisms. Yet limited research considers the social dynamics between residents that are enabled by these opportunity structures. The authors adopt a population-level approach to evaluate how ethnoracial diversity and opportunity structures function jointly to facilitate the development of bridging social capital (i.e., mixing of dissimilar people) which is hypothesized to predict Alzhiemer's disease mortality rates. Upon analyzing Alzheimer's disease mortality records from 2,469 U.S. counties, the authors find that counties whose sociodemographic composition and opportunity structures combine to en

SUBMITTER: Roth AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11999701 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature