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Franchesca Arias, PhD

Clinical Health Psychologist

Additional languages:
Spanish
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Research at a glance

Top areas of exploration

  • Neuropsychological Tests , 7 publications
  • Cognitive Dysfunction , 6 publications
  • Delirium , 5 publications
  • Opioid-Related Disorders , 4 publications

Research activity

25 publications

509 citations

Why is this important?

Focus

Dr. Arias’ research interests center around the intersection between cognitive aging, contextual and socioeconomic factors, and medical conditions in older adults. Specifically, her work explores social determinants of health and their role in propelling or interfering with, healthy cognitive aging in patients from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Dr. Arias has received funding from the Alzheimer’s Association (2019-AARFD-644816) and the National Institute on Aging (NIA; Diversity Supplement to Grant No. P01AG031720; PI: Inouye) to identify contextual-level factors that increase the vulnerability for acute and long-term cognitive decline to explore social determinants of health in the context of acute changes in cognition in older adults presenting for major, non-cardiac, surgery.

My publications

25 publications

2024

Plasma Alzheimer's biomarkers and brain amyloid in Hispanic and non-Hispanic older adults.

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

PubMed Publisher's site

2024

Social determinants of health and incident postoperative delirium: Exploring key relationships in the SAGES study

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

PubMed Publisher's site

2023

Culturally and Linguistically Informed Neuropsychological Evaluation Protocol for Primarily Spanish-Speaking Adults

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

Publisher's site

2023

Shared Decision Making for Elective Surgical Procedures in Older Adults with and without Cognitive Insufficiencies

Medical Decision Making

Publisher's site