“…Indeed, previous studies support an association between self-reported psychological stress and dementia (Islamoska et al, 2019;Johansson et al, 2010;Nabe-Nielsen et al, 2019;Skogen, Bergh, Stewart, Knudsen, & Bjerkeset, 2015), and between clinical diagnoses of stress and dementia (Flatt, Gilsanz, Quesenberry Jr., Albers, & Whitmer, 2018;Gradus et al, 2018;Greenberg et al, 2014;Mawanda, Wallace, McCoy, & Abrams, 2017;Meziab et al, 2014;Qureshi et al, 2010;Rafferty, Cawkill, Stevelink, Greenberg, & Greenberg, 2018;Yaffe et al, 2010). A stress diagnosis denotes severe stress reactions and adjustment disorders as maladaptive responses to severe or continued exposure to stressors (World Health Organization, 2016).…”