Retirement and cognitive aging in a racially diverse sample of older Americans.

Ross AndelBritney M VealVirginia J HowardLeslie A MacDonaldSuzanne E JuddMichael Crowe

Published in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (2023)

Cognitive functioning may decline at an accelerated rate immediately post-retirement, more so in White adults and men than Black adults and women. Lifelong structural inequalities including occupational segregation and other social determinants of cognitive health may obscure the role of retirement in cognitive aging.

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