Marcio Soto-Añari, Jaime Perales-Puchalt, María J. Marquine, Luis D. Medina, Cinthya Aguero, Valeria L. Torres, Daniela Thumala, Alberto Nuñez-Herrera, Yakeel T. Quiroz, Jorge J. Llibre-Guerra, Ivonne Z. Jiménez-Velázquez, Alejandra Morlett Paredes, Patrizia Vannini, Jennifer R. Gatchel, Monica M. Diaz, Clara Vila-Castelar, Tomas Leon Rodriguez, Dorene M. Rentz, Edmarie Guzmán-Vélez, Lidia Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez, Ana Paola Garza-Naveda, Celina F Pluim, Andrea Slachevsky, Idalid Franco, Maria Jose Suing-Ortega, Jairo Martínez, Nilton Custodio, Enmanuelle Pardilla-Delgado, Ganesh M. Babulal, Fernando Torrente, Diana Munera, Daisy Acosta, Rebecca E. Amariglio, Mariana González Lara, Lissette Duque Peñailillo, Juliana Aya Ussui, Julián Bustin, Sara Aguilar-Navarro, Cecilia Serrano, Claudia Miranda-Castillo, Sonia Maria Dozzi Brucki, Maira Okada de Oliveira, Liliana Ramirez-Gomez, Reisa A. Sperling, Tatiana Yañez-Escalante, Bernard Hanseeuw, Monica Rosselli, Claudia Rivera-Fernández, Yamile Bocanegra, Ana Baena, Diego M. Cabrera, and Santiago J. Palmer-Cancel more...
Background: In the COVID-19 pandemic, older adults from vulnerable ethnoracial groups are at high risk of infection, hospitalization, and death. We aimed to explore the pandemic's impact on the well-being and cognition of older adults living in the United States (US), Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Peru. Methods: 1,608 (646 White, 852 Latino, 77 Black, 33 Asian; 72% female) individuals from the US and four Latin American countries aged ≥ 55 years completed an online survey regarding well-being and cognition during the pandemic between May and September 2020. Outcome variables (pandemic impact, discrimination, loneliness, purpose of life, subjective cognitive concerns) were compared across four US ethnoracial groups and older adults living in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Peru. Findings: Mean age for all participants was 66.7 (SD = 7.7) years and mean education was 15.4 (SD = 2.7) years. Compared to Whites, Latinos living in the US reported greater economic impact (p more...