Characteristics of Mexican-American elders with dementia presenting to a community-based memory evaluation program

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 517-521

  Espino, David V ^a   DelAguila, David ^b   Mouton, Charles P ^a   Alford, Cynthia ^a   Parker, Robert W ^a   Miles, Toni P ^a   Olivares, Olga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE NUEVO LEÓN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Dementia; Mexican American diagnosis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMUNITY CARE; COMORBIDITY; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELDERLY CARE; ETHNIC GROUP; FALLING; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYMPTOM; UNITED STATES;

AGED; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEMORY; MEXICAN AMERICANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEXAS;

EID: 0036763336     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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