Making sense of behavioral disturbances in persons with dementia: Latino family caregiver attributions of neuropsychiatric inventory domains

Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 401-405

  Hinton, Ladson ^a   Chambers, Darin ^a   Velásquez, Alexandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; Attributions; Caregiving; Latinos; Neuropsychiatric symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; AGING; AGITATION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANXIETY; APATHY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CAREGIVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DELUSION; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CALIFORNIA; CAREGIVERS; COHORT STUDIES; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75949131195     PISSN: 08930341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WAD.0b013e3181a6bc21     Document Type: Article

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