The Role of Spirituality in Conceptualizations of Health Maintenance and Healthy Aging Among Latin American Immigrants

•How do older adults who immigrated to the United States from diverse regions of Latin America conceptualize spirituality in relationship to maintaining brain health and healthy aging?•When asked how to best take care of the brain while aging, spirituality emerged as a key factor in 19 out of 30 participants’ responses. Within these responses, we identified five major themes: (1) expressing gratitude to God for mental and physical health, (2) putting the onus of life and death in God's hands, (3) using prayer as nourishment for the soul and the brain, (4) using church as a place to socialize and build community as an approach to leading a healthy lifestyle, and (5) gaining inner-peace and calm, and thus maintaining a healthy life, due to a connection with God.•This study builds upon existing spirituality-linked public health efforts to discuss a possible patient- or community-centered approach, pertaining to the incorporation of customized spiritual interventions as a potential mechanism by which to increase the effectiveness of brain health promotion efforts.