Examining the Relationship Between Incarceration and Healthy Aging.

ABSTRACT: Our understanding of the collateral consequences of incarceration on health, biological aging, and mortality has increased exponentially in recent years. Drawing on newly collected data on aging at age 62 and retrospective reports of incarceration history among a community cohort of Black men and women who have been prospectively followed from first grade (in 1966) to later life (modal age 62), this study adds to this growing literature by examining whether incarceration is associated with healthy aging, a concept that captures the aging experience through traditional indicators, such as physical and mental health conditions, as well as through indicators of functional ability and well-being, such as cognitive functioning, sleep, and hearing loss. By focusing on a first-grade, single-race

SUBMITTER: Doherty EE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12756256 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature