Marital Status and Dementia: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We provide one of the first population-based studies of variation in dementia by marital status in the United States.

Method

We analyzed data from the Health and Retirement Study (2000-2014). The sample included 15,379 respondents (6,650 men and 8,729 women) aged 52 years and older in 2000 who showed no evidence of dementia at the baseline survey. Dementia was assessed using either the modified version of the Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICS) or the proxy's assessment. Discrete-time hazard regression models were estimated to predict odds of dementia.

Results

All unmarried groups, including the cohabiting, divorced/separated, widowed, and never married, had significantly higher odds of developing dementia over the study period than their marrie

SUBMITTER: Liu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7489107 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature