Parental dementia and subjective memory impairment in the health and retirement study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine relationships between subjective memory impairment (SMI) and parental dementia among in older adults while considering the interactive influence of depressive symptoms, ethnicity, and race.

Method

The sample was drawn from the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative longitudinal study of aging (n = 3,809; M_age = 66.09; SD = 1.88; 84.20% White; 12.23% Black; 7.88% Hispanic). Biennial assessments included two measures of SMI (current memory problems and perceived memory decline), depressive symptoms, and parental dementia, over periods of up to sixteen years. Multilevel modeling analyses examined longitudinal relationships between parental dementia and SMI and whether depressive symptoms, ethnicity, and rac

SUBMITTER: Bell TR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8517028 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature