ArticleInnovation in aging2026
Persistent financial adversity and cognitive aging: a life course investigation.
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Abstract
Background and Objectives: The long-term effect of persistent financial adversity on cognitive aging remains unclear. We examined how sustained financial hardship across adulthood associates with midlife cognition, cognitive decline, and later-life brain health and whether impacts vary by sex, childhood socioeconomic circumstances (SECs), and genetic risk. Research Design and Methods: Using data from the 1946 British birth cohort ( Results: Increased exposure to low household income and financial hardships was associated with lower processing speed (-0.07 [-0.13, -0.02] and -0.05 [-0.11, -0.00]) and verbal memory at age 53 (-0.16 [-0.21, -0.11] and -0.10 [-0.15, -0.05]). This was followed by slower verbal memory decline, attributable to lower baseline scores. Persistent low income was associated with greater ventricular volume ( Discussion and Implications: Persistent financial adversity impacts cognitive performance by midlife and later-life brain atrophy, with larger effects for men, those from disadvantaged childhoods, and individuals with greater genetic risk. Supporting financially vulnerable working-age adults could help prevent dementia in an aging population.
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