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Sibling Deaths, Racial/Ethnic Disadvantage, and Dementia in Later Life

Author(s) -

Hyungmin Cha,

Patricia A. Thomas,

Debra Umberson

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

the journals of gerontology series b

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578

H-Index - 150

eISSN - 1758-5368

pISSN - 1079-5014

DOI - 10.1093/geronb/gbab202

Subject(s) - sibling , dementia , demography , ethnic group , gerontology , health and retirement study , medicine , hazard ratio , mediation , psychology , developmental psychology , confidence interval , disease , pathology , sociology , anthropology , political science , law

Sibling loss is understudied in the bereavement and health literature. The present study considers whether experiencing the death of siblings in mid-to-late life is associated with subsequent dementia risk and how differential exposure to sibling losses by race/ethnicity may contribute to racial/ethnic disparities in dementia risk.

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