Unveiling Cognitive Health Disparities: A Gender Perspective on Aging in India.

IF 1.3 4区医学 Q4 GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY

Experimental Aging Research Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-30 DOI:10.1080/0361073X.2024.2448099

C V Irshad, Deepak Kumar Behera, Umakant Dash

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Abstract

Objective: The study examined the association of various socioeconomic, demographic, health risk behavior, and social capital factors with the cognitive health status of older adults in India.

Methods: Data from the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI, 2017-18), wave-1 was used. Binary logistic regression was applied to explore the significant predictor variables of poor cognitive health status. Further, decomposition analysis was employed to explore the gender differences in cognitive health status.

Results: The results revealed that female older adults had a higher odds of poor cognitive health status than male older adults (aOR: 2.37; 99% CI: 1.97-2.85). Increasing years of age, not being in a marital union, lower levels of social capital, and the presence of health risk behavior increased the odds of poor cognitive health. Education had a protective effect against the decline in cognitive health. The decomposition analysis results indicated that the gender difference in educational attainment contributed largely to the gender inequality in poor cognitive health status.

Conclusions: The results suggest that gender equality in educational attainment could reduce the gender difference in cognitive health among male and female older adults to a large extent.

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揭示认知健康差异：印度老龄化的性别视角。

目的：研究印度老年人的社会经济、人口、健康风险行为和社会资本因素与认知健康状况的关系。方法：使用来自印度纵向老龄化研究（LASI, 2017-18）的数据，wave-1。采用二元logistic回归方法探讨认知健康状况不良的显著预测变量。进一步采用分解分析探讨认知健康状况的性别差异。结果：女性老年人认知健康状况较差的几率高于男性老年人(aOR: 2.37；99% ci: 1.97-2.85)。年龄增加、没有婚姻关系、社会资本水平降低以及存在健康风险行为增加了认知健康状况不佳的几率。教育对认知健康的下降有保护作用。分解分析结果表明，受教育程度的性别差异是导致认知健康状况不佳的主要原因。结论：受教育程度的性别平等可以在很大程度上缩小男女老年人认知健康的性别差异。

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Experimental Aging Research 医学-老年医学

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期刊介绍： Experimental Aging Research is a life span developmental and aging journal dealing with research on the aging process from a psychological and psychobiological perspective. It meets the need for a scholarly journal with refereed scientific papers dealing with age differences and age changes at any point in the adult life span. Areas of major focus include experimental psychology, neuropsychology, psychobiology, work research, ergonomics, and behavioral medicine. Original research, book reviews, monographs, and papers covering special topics are published.