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Interracial and intraracial differences in neuropsychiatric symptoms, sociodemography, and treatment among nursing home patients with dementia
Author(s)Carl I Cohen, Kathryn Hyland, Carol Magai
Journal titleThe Gerontologist, vol 38, no 3, June 1998
Pagespp 353-361
KeywordsDementia ; Patients [nursing homes] ; Mental disorder ; Therapeutics ; White people ; Black people ; United States of America.
AnnotationUsing an adaptation of a social antecedent model of psychopathology, this study examined interracial and intraracial differences in neuropsychiatric symptoms, sociodemography, and treatment among nursing home patients with dementia. The sample consisted of 164 US-born African Americans, 54 African Caribbeans, and 68 white Americans. Although there were appreciable interracial differences in sociodemographics, there were minimal clinical differences. This finding may reflect both racial differences in pathways to institutionalisation and the homogenisation of clinical characteristics created by new US governmental standards for nursing homes. No substantial differences were found between African Americans and African Caribbeans. Use of medication to treat neuropsychiatric symptoms was low, and may have reflected difficulties in diagnosis and concerns about the abuse of medications. (AKM).
Accession NumberCPA-980810415 A
ClassmarkEA: LHB:LF: E: LL: TKA: TKE: 7T

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