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  • Public Health
  • Epidemiology

Background:

  • Social determinants of health (SDH) significantly influence dementia risk throughout life.
  • The co-occurrence of multiple adverse SDH is often overlooked, despite its potential impact.
  • Understanding SDH clusters is crucial for targeted dementia prevention strategies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify distinct clusters of co-occurring social determinants of health (SDH) in older adults.
  • To examine the association between these SDH clusters and the risk of developing dementia.
  • To conduct a gender-disaggregated analysis to explore sex-specific differences in SDH-dementia risk relationships.

Main Methods:

  • Latent class analysis was used to identify SDH clusters from 72 individual and neighborhood-level measures.
  • A gender-disaggregated cohort study included 12,896 community-dwelling Australians aged 70+.
  • Cox proportional hazards regression estimated dementia risk over a 12-year follow-up, adjusting for covariates.

Main Results:

  • Four distinct SDH clusters were identified: least disadvantaged, most disadvantaged, higher social support with least disadvantaged features, and higher social support with most disadvantaged features.
  • The 'most disadvantaged' cluster was associated with significantly increased dementia risk in both men and women.
  • Women in the 'higher social support with most disadvantaged features' cluster also showed a significantly elevated dementia risk.

Conclusions:

  • Socioeconomic disadvantage, even with social support, is linked to higher incident dementia risk.
  • Women appear disproportionately affected by adverse SDH concerning dementia risk.
  • Interventions addressing multidimensional deprivation across all levels are essential for health equity and dementia prevention.