Getting the message out about cognitive health: A cross-cultural comparison of older adults' media awareness and communication needs on how to maintain a healthy brain

Gerontologist

Volumn 49, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Friedman, Daniela B ^a   Laditka, James N ^b   Hunter, Rebecca ^c   Ivey, Susan L ^d   Wu, Bei ^e   Laditka, Sarah B ^b   Tseng, Winston ^d   Corwin, Sara J ^a   Liu, Rui ^a   Mathews, Anna E ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^f FURMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive health; Culture; Ethnicity; Health communication; Mass media

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MASS MEDIA; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 68149103198     PISSN: 00169013     EISSN: 17585341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnp080     Document Type: Article

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