Parental Death and Cognitive Impairment: An Examination by Gender and Race-Ethnicity.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We provide the first nationally representative longitudinal study of cognitive impairment in relation to parental death from childhood through early adulthood, midlife, and later adulthood, with attention to heterogeneity in the experience of parental death.

Methods

We analyzed data from the Health and Retirement Study (2000-2016). The sample included 13,392 respondents, contributing 72,860 person-periods. Cognitive impairment was assessed using the modified version of the Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status. Discrete-time hazard regression models were estimated to predict the odds of cognitive impairment.

Results

Both exposure and timing of parental death were related to the risk of cognitive impairment in late life and associations vary by gender. Th

SUBMITTER: Liu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9159058 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature