Heterogeneous Effects of Education on Alzheimers Disease and Related Dementia among Demographic Groups: A Multigenerational and Multilevel Study

项目总结 教育对阿尔茨海默病和相关痴呆(ADRD)的保护作用被发现是 对于种族/少数民族个人来说，比非西班牙裔白人个人更小。确定以下因素 修改或调解教育-ADRD关系为解决种族/民族问题提供了一个独特的机会 消除ADRD的差异，并最终改善人口健康。然而，大多数研究依赖于受访者的 教育评估教育-ADRD的关系，没有考虑其他家庭成员的作用 教育或教育发生并影响可持续发展的社会背景和环境。主要目标是 拟议的研究的一部分是开发一个新的框架，其中包括多代教育和 多领域背景测量，并用它来阐明教育对ADRD风险的异质性影响 通过分析具有全国代表性的纵向数据，在种族/民族群体中进行调查。我们建议实现这一目标 通过三个具体目标来实现目标。在目标1中，我们将开发一个多代框架，并使用它来估计 多代教育对受访者的ADRD风险和种族/民族差异的影响。目标2 是构建结构性不平等和种族主义的多领域背景衡量标准，并评估它们对 个人的ADRD风险和种族/民族差异。提供以下内容的历史和人口背景 了解目标1和目标2的结果，在目标3中，我们将评估教育对ADRD风险的影响 在四个出生队列中不同。 这项拟议的研究意义重大，因为它将有助于减少认知障碍的种族/民族差异。 和ADRD风险，通过澄清多代途径并确定 异质教育--人口群体之间的ADRD关系。拟议的研究是 创新，因为它将发展一种新的、多代人和多层次的调解方法来理解 为什么教育与ADRD的风险关系在种族/民族之间有所不同。它还将贡献新的 将背景数据转换为具有全国代表性的数据集。

PROJECT SUMMARY The protective effect of education against Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) is found to be smaller for racial/ethnic minority individuals than for non-Hispanic White individuals. Identifying factors that modify or mediate the education-ADRD relationship presents a unique opportunity to address the racial/ethnic disparities in ADRD and ultimately improve population health. However, most research relies on respondents’ education to assess the education-ADRD relationship, failing to consider the roles of other family member’s education or the social context and environment in which education occurs and affects ADRD. The major goal of the proposed research is to develop a novel framework that incorporates multigenerational education and multidomain contextual measures and use it to clarify the heterogeneous effects of education on ADRD risk among racial/ethnic groups by analyzing nationally representative longitudinal data. We propose to achieve this goal through three specific aims. In Aim 1, we will develop a multigenerational framework and use it to estimate the effect of multigenerational education on the respondent’s ADRD risk and the racial/ethnic disparities. Aim 2 is to construct multidomain contextual measures of structural inequality and racism and estimate their effects on individual’s ADRD risk and the racial/ethnic disparities. To provide historical and population contexts for understanding results from Aims 1 and 2, in Aim 3 we will estimate how education effects on ADRD risk may differ across four birth cohorts. The proposed research is significant because it will help reduce racial/ethnic disparities in cognitive impairment and ADRD risk by clarifying multigenerational pathways and identifying mediators and modifiers of the heterogeneous education-ADRD relationships among demographic groups. The proposed research is innovative because it will develop a new multigenerational and multilevel mediation approach to understanding why the education-ADRD risk relationship differs among racial/ethnic groups. It will also contribute new contextual data to a nationally representative data set.