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“Early life exposures and early life social opportunities have an impact on later life,” said the senior author, Jennifer J. Manly, a professor of neuropsychology at Columbia.

Now an assistant professor of sociomedical sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, she sees health care as part of a larger picture: If people’s housing is unhealthy, they will be, too.

Jennifer Manly, a neuropsychology professor at Columbia University, told CNN that scientists have been monitoring a cohort of adults over age 65, many from the Washington Heights area, since 1992.