Sensory impairments and cognitive impairment among Mexican American older adults: nativity differences.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine the associations between sensory impairments and cognitive impairment (CI), and how these associations differ by nativity over 12 years of follow-up among Mexican American 75 years and older with moderate to high cognitive function at baseline.

Method

Dual sensory impairment (DSI) included vision impairment (VI), difficulty in recognizing a friend at arm's length, across the room, or across the street); and hearing impairment (HI), inability to hear and understand a speech without seeing a person talk, in a quiet room. Participants were grouped into No VI-No HI, HI only, VI only, and Yes VI-Yes HI by nativity. CI was defined as scoring <21 on the Mini-Mental State Examination.

Results

US-born and foreign-born participantsin the Yes VI-Yes HI grou

SUBMITTER: Toro Figueira B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12530192 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature