Social Vulnerability Index and Cognitive Decline in a Population‐Based Cohort Study
Pankaja Desai, Ted KS Ng, Kristin R Krueger, Denis A Evans, Kumar B Rajan · 2025
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Pankaja Desai and co-authors link a neighborhood vulnerability score to thinking decline in older adults in this 2025 study. The score bundles poverty, housing, transport, and other social strains. Brain health research often stops at single-person traits and misses such context.
Thousands of Chicago elders were followed in a long-running cohort study. The group spans two racial groups on the city's south side. The team test whether higher area vulnerability tracks faster cognitive decline. It also checks who, within hard-pressed areas, declines fastest. Prevention may need street-level fixes, not only clinic-level ones. The study gives city data a direct role in dementia planning. Such scores already guide other public health spending.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Pankaja Desai, Ted KS Ng, Kristin R Krueger, Denis A Evans, Kumar B Rajan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |