Seminar · Epidemiology
Biopsychosocial pathways in dementia inequalities
Laura Zahodne · Psychology, University of Michigan
Mon, Mar 21, 2022 · 07:00 UTC
In the United States, racial/ethnic inequalities in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias persist even after controlling for socioeconomic factors and physical health. These persistent and unexplained disparities suggest: (1) there are unrecognized dementia risk factors that are socially patterned and/or (2) known dementia risk factors exhibit differential impact across social groups. Pursuing these research directions with data from multiple longitudinal studies of brain and cognitive aging has revealed several challenges to the study of late-life health inequalities, highlighted evidence