Marc A. García|Joseph Sáenz|Brian Downer|Rebeca Wong
The role of education in the association between race/ethnicity/nativity, cognitive impairment, and dementia among older adults in the United States
John Sealy Hospital|University of Southern California|The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
older black hispanic adults likely cognitively impaired older white adults disadvantages educational achievement minority immigrant populations may contribute disparities cognitive impairmentexamine role education racialethnic nativity differences cognitive impairmentno dementia cind dementia among older us adultsdata comes 2012 health retirement study total 19099 participants aged 50 included analysis participants categorized normal cognition cind dementia based telephone interview cognitive status tics questions proxy interview document age educational differences cognitive status among white black usborn hispanic foreignborn hispanic adults sex logistic regression used quantify association raceethnicitynativity education cognitive status sexamong women foreignborn hispanics higher odds cind dementia whites men blacks higher odds cind dementia compared whites higher odds cind dementia across raceethnic nativity groups reduced controlling years education remained statistically significant older black usborn hispanic adults controlling education reduces odds cind women men dementia men among foreignborn hispanics nonsignificancethese results highlight importance education cind dementia particularly among foreignborn hispanics addressing inequalities education contribute reducing racialethnicnativity disparities cind dementia older adults