Lower-quality neighborhood resources and difficulty paying for basic needs were associated with lower scores on cognitive tests, according to the research. Higher parental socioeconomic status was associated with slower cognitive decline in older age.
Matthias Klee, a doctoral student in psychology at the University of Luxembourg, collaborated with researchers from universities of Exeter and Oxford to examine data from 196,368 participants' records in the UK Biobank, whose genetic risk for developing dementia was assessed through risk scores.
Both individual and area-level deprivation contributed to the risk of dementia, researchers found. For participants with moderate or high genetic risk, greater area-level deprivation was associated with even higher risk for developing dementia, after adjusting for individual-level socioeconomic conditions.
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health researcher Katrina Kezios categorized study participants' history of low wages into those who never earned low wages, who intermittently earned low wages or who always earned low wages, and then examined the relationship with memory decline over 12 years.
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