Racial differences in the prevalence of dementia among patients admitted to nursing homes

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1259-1264

  Weintraub, D ^a   Raskin, A ^a   Ruskin, P E ^a   Gruber Baldini, A L ^a   Zimmerman, S I ^a   Hebel, J R ^a   German, P ^a   Magaziner, J ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSING HOME; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLACKS; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MARYLAND; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT ADMISSION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; WHITES;

EID: 0033775423     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.51.10.1259     Document Type: Article

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