Public Health.

Background: Subjective social status in the US (SSS) is related to physical, mental, and cognitive health independent of socioeconomic status, yet few studies have assessed SSS in one's community or examined how SSS may function differentially across the intersection of race and gender. This study aimed to assess the relationships between SSS-US, SSS-community, brain health, and cognitive reserve utilizing an intersectional lens to extend the literature on social determinants of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia (ADRD) risk.

Methods: Participants were 867 older adults from the Washington Heights-Inwood Columbia Aging Project (WHICAP).

Public Health.

Background: Racial disparities in cognition persist even when accounting for traditional social factors. Occupational characteristics represent a less commonly measured socioeconomic factor that may contribute to health disparities through persistent workforce inequities. Socioeconomic status and cognitive stimulation are potential mechanisms that may link occupational characteristics to racial disparities in cognition.

Public Health.

Background: Perceived control is a psychosocial construct thought to reflect one's beliefs about their ability to influence life outcomes and includes both internal (self-efficacy, mastery) and external (structural barriers, constraints) subcomponents. While perceived control has been found to relate to numerous health outcomes such as cardiovascular and mental health, less is known about its impact on brain health. A prior study found that behavioral (i.

Public Health.

Background: Neighborhood conditions and their racial patterning represent under-studied factors that could contribute to racial disparities in dementia risk. Neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) has been linked to dementia, but the racial distribution of SES within a neighborhood may also matter for dementia risk.

Method: Individual-level data from 460 (47% Black, 46% White, 7% other) older adults from the Michigan Cognitive Aging Project (Table 1) were linked to census tract-level data from the National Neighborhood Data Archive.

Dementia Care Research and Psychosocial Factors.

Background: Marital status is an important but often overlooked sociodemographic factor that could shape cognitive health in late adulthood. Being married is shown to be linked to lower risk of dementia, but less is understood about underlying mechanisms contributing to this relationship, such as brain reserve (BR) and cognitive reserve (CR). Further, less is known about how living arrangement, independent of marital status, is associated with late-life cognition.