A direct comparison of popular models of normal memory loss and alzheimer's disease in samples of African Americans, Mexican Americans, and refugees and immigrants from the former Soviet Union

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 628-636

  Schrauf, Robert W ^a,b   Iris, Madelyn ^c  

^a Department of Applied Linguistics   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Leonard Schanfield Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; consensus analysis; cultural models; ethnic differences; lay beliefs; memory loss

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSENSUS; CONSULTATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MODEL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; ETHNOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCOME; INTERVIEW; LIFESPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFUGEE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOCIAL BELIEF; UNITED STATES; USSR;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFUGEES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; USSR;

EID: 79954767129     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03361.x     Document Type: Article

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