SynthesisSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2015
The association between community environment and cognitive function: a systematic review.
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- Neighborhood Environment and Cognition in Older Adults: A Systematic Review.American journal of preventive medicine · 2017Pooled it
- Long-Term Green Space Exposure and Cognition Across the Life Course: a Systematic Review.Current environmental health reports · 2016Pooled it
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- Urban-rural differences in influencing factors of depressive symptoms among Chinese perimenopausal women.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Higher neighborhood deprivation is associated with accelerated disease progression in behavioral-variant frontotemporal degeneration.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Joint effects of environmental and neighborhood socioeconomic factors on cognitive function in the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study.Environmental research · 2025Article
- Neighborhood deprivation and mortality among people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2025Article
- Social context matters: Neighborhood environment as a moderator of the longitudinal relationship between edentulism and cognitive function among older adults in the United States.Archives of gerontology and geriatrics · 2025Article
- Exposure to neighborhood concentrated poverty is associated with faster decline in episodic memory among midlife women.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Article
- Neighborhood disadvantage and the incidence of dementia in US Black women.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Article
- Development of a checklist for cognitive assessment requirements (CARE) based on a Delphi consensus study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
purposesThe aim of this study is to review the published evidence on the association between community environment and cognitive function in older people, focusing on the findings and a critique of the existing studies.
methodsA literature search was conducted to identify studies linking the community environment and cognitive function in older people. The results and methodological factors, including the definition of community, individual level characteristics and the measurements of cognitive function and community environment were extracted from each study. The measurements of community environment were mainly categorized into two types: compositional, generated by aggregating individual and household data (community-level socioeconomic status, deprivation index) and contextual, targeting at the features of built or social environment in local areas (green space, street conditions, crime rate).
resultsFourteen of the fifteen studies used compositional measurements such as community-level socioeconomic status and deprivation index and significant associations were found in eleven studies. Some individual level factors (ethnicity, genotype and socioeconomic status) were found to modify the association between community environment and cognitive function. Few contextual measurements were included in the existing studies. A conceptual framework for the pathway from community environment to cognitive function of older people is provided in this review.
conclusionsTo disentangle the additional effect of place from individual risk factors and investigate the casual direction of community environment and cognition in later life, longitudinal studies with measurements targeting built and social environments of community and change of cognitive functions over time need to be included in future studies.
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