Employment Status, Housing Stability, and Cognitive Health: Socioeconomic Determinants of Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia in Western and Eastern Africa
Findings highlight employment and housing stability as key social determinants influencing cognitive health, emphasizing the need for policies that enhance economic security to mitigate dementia risk.
Authors
- Patrice Whitehead
- Azizi Seixas
- Joshua Odunayo Akinyemi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0675-2110)
- Mayowa Ogunronbi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4104-2728)
- Blanton Susan
- Kazeem Abiodun Akinwande (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0302-1598)
- Albert Akpalu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4802-9852)
- D. M. Ndetei
- Biniyam Ayele
- Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project
- Dingtian Cai
- Samuel Diala
- Margaret Pericak‐Vance
- Kara L Hamilton‐Nelson
- Allison M Caban‐Holt
- Kyle M Scott
- Carolina Scaramutti
- Andrew F Zaman
- Larry D Adams
- Farid Rajabli
- Daniel A. Dorfsman
- Michael L Cuccaro
- Albertino Damasceno
- Fred Stephen Sarfo
- Motunrayo Coker
Institutions
- University of Ghana (GH)
- University of Miami (US)
- Eduardo Mondlane University (MZ)
- University of Ibadan (NG)
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (GH)
- Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation (US)
- Global Brain Health Institute (US)
- Wake Forest University (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Alzheimer s & Dementia
- Published
- 2025-12-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/alz70858_107612
- Primary Topic
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00