Characterizing and explaining differences in cognitive test performance between African American and European American older adults

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 80-100

  Morgan, Adrienne Aiken ^a   Marsiske, Michael ^a   Whitfield, Keith E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PERCEPTION; RACE DIFFERENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; READING; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COGNITION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PILOT PROJECTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRICS; RESEARCH DESIGN; VERBAL LEARNING;

SAMBUCUS NIGRA CANADENSIS;

EID: 38149005674     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610730701776427     Document Type: Article

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