Volume 38 - Article 6 | Pages 155–168  

The role of education in the association between race/ethnicity/nativity, cognitive impairment, and dementia among older adults in the United States

By Marc A. Garcia, Joseph Saenz, Brian Downer, Rebeca Wong

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