Neuropsychiatric symptoms are associated with disability in cognitively impaired Latino elderly with and without dementia: Results from the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 102-108

  Hinton, Ladson ^a,c   Farias, Sarah Tomaszewski ^a   Wegelin, Jacob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitively impaired not demented; Dementia; Disability; Latinos; Neuropsychiatric symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; SCORING SYSTEM; UNITED STATES;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 38749113732     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: 10991166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gps.1952     Document Type: Article

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