ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences2020
Death of a Child Prior to Midlife, Dementia Risk, and Racial Disparities.
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- Empty chairs at the dinner table: Black-white disparities in exposure to household member deaths.SSM - population health · 2024Article
- Familial Loss of a Loved One and Biological Aging: NIMHD Social Epigenomics Program.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Perceived Discrimination and Incident Dementia Among Older Adults in the United States: The Buffering Role of Social Relationships.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2024Article
- Gender Differences in Depressive Symptoms Following Child Death in Later Life.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Article
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- "Outside the Skin": The Persistence of Black-White Disparities in U.S. Early-Life Mortality.Demography · 2022Article
- Multiple Family Member Deaths and Cardiometabolic Health among Black and White Older Adults.Journal of health and social behavior · 2022Article
- Sibling Deaths, Racial/Ethnic Disadvantage, and Dementia in Later Life.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2022Article
- The Death of a Child and Parents' Psychological Distress in Mid to Later Life: Racial/Ethnic Differences in Exposure and Vulnerability.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2022Article
- Color disparities in cognitive aging among Puerto Ricans on the archipelago.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- Marital loss and risk of dementia: Do race and gender matter?Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectivesThis study considers whether experiencing the death of a child prior to midlife (by parental age 40) is associated with subsequent dementia risk, and how such losses, which are more common for black than for white parents, may add to racial disparities in dementia risk.
methodsWe use discrete-time event history models to predict dementia incidence among 9,276 non-Hispanic white and 2,182 non-Hispanic black respondents from the Health and Retirement Study, 2000-2014.
resultsLosing a child prior to midlife is associated with increased risk for later dementia, and adds to disparities in dementia risk associated with race. The death of a child is associated with a number of biosocial variables that contribute to subsequent dementia risk, helping to explain how the death of child may increase risk over time. DISCUSSION: The death of a child prior to midlife is a traumatic life course stressor with consequences that appear to increase dementia risk for both black and white parents, and this increased risk is explained by biosocial processes likely activated by bereavement. However, black parents are further disadvantaged in that they are more likely than white parents to experience the death of a child, and such losses add to the already substantial racial disadvantage in dementia risk.
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