Relationship between Residential Segregation, Later-Life Cognition, and Incident Dementia across Race/Ethnicity.

ABSTRACT: Systemic racism leads to racial/ethnic residential segregation, which can result in health inequities. We examined if the associations between residential segregation and later-life cognition and dementia differed based on segregation measure and by participant race/ethnicity. Tests of memory (n = 4616), language (n = 4333), visuospatial abilities (n = 4557), and incident dementia (n = 4556) were analyzed in older residents of Northern Manhattan, New York (mean age: 75.7 years). Segregation was measured at the block group-level using three indices: dissimilarity, isolation, and interaction. We fit multilevel linear or Cox proportional hazards models and included a race/ethnicity × segregation term to test for differential associations, adjusting for socioeconomic and health factors. Living

SUBMITTER: Pohl DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8583156 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature