Neighborhood socioeconomic status and environmental burden show diverging associations with cognitive impairment in community-dwelling older adults

OBJECTIVE: Research on neighborhood context and cognitive health often relies on composite indices that collapse neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) and aspects of the built environment into a single score. This study examined the extent to which neighborhood SES and built environment were associated with late-life cognitive impairment. METHOD: Participants were 281 predominantly Black older adults who completed the Self-Administered Gerocognitive Exam (SAGE), a brief cognitive screening measure. Participants also provided their home address to obtain four neighborhood metrics: Two composi

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