Social & behavioral research on Alzheimer's Disease and dementia in diverse populations: A bibliography

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• Amaducci, L., Baldereschi, M., Doody, R., Chandra, V., & Gaines, A. D. (1997). Cultural issues in the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer disease: Position paper from the International Working Group on Harmonization of Dementia Drug Guidelines. Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders, 11(Suppl. 3), 19-21.
• Auchus, A. (1997). Dementia in urban black outpatients: Initial experience at the Emory satellite clinics. Gerontologist, 37(1), 25-29.
• Austrom, Mary Guerriero; Hartwell, Cora; Moore, Patricia; Perkins, Anthony J.; Damush, Teresa; Unverzagt, Frederick W.; Boustani, Malaz; Hendrie, Hugh C.; Callahan, Christopher M. (2006). An integrated model of comprehensive care for people with Alzheimer's disease and their caregivers in a primary care setting. Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice, 5(3), 339-52.
• Bain, Lisa J.; Barker, Warren; Loewenstein, David A.; et al. (2008). Towards an earlier diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (proceedings of the 5th MCI Symposium, 2007). Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders, 22(2), 99-110.
• Bannerjee, Sube; Willis, Rosalind; Matthews, David; Contell, Faith; et. al. (2007). Improving the quality of care for mild to moderate dementia: An evaluation of the Croydon Memory Service Model. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 22(8), 782-88.
• Boustani, Malaz; Perkins, Anthony J.; Fox, Chris; Unverzagt, Fred; Austrom, Mary Guerriero; Fultz, Bridget; Hui, Siu; Callahan, Christopher M.; Hendrie, Hugh C. (2006). Who refuses the diagnostic assessment for dementia in primary care? International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 21(6), 556-63.
• Burns, Robert; Nichols, Linda O.; Graney, Marshall J.; Martindale-Adams, Jennifer; Lummus, Alan. (2006). Cognitive abilities of Alzheimer's patients: perceptions of black and white caregivers. International Journal of Aging and Human Development 62(3): 209-19.
• Chong, Mei Sian; Chin, Jing Jih; Saw, Seang Mei; Chan, Siew Pang; Venketasubramanian, N.; Tan, Louis C. S.; Hong, Ching Ye; Sahadevan, Suresh. (2006). Screening for dementia in the older Chinese with a single question test on progressive forgetfulness. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 21(5), 442-48.
• Clark, Patricia C.; Kutner, Nancy G.; Goldstein, Felicia G.; Peterson-Hazen, Susan; Garner, Vanessa; Zhang, Rebecca; Bowles, Tess. (2005). Impediments to timely diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in African Americans. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 53(11), 2012-2017.
• Cohen, C. I., Hyland, K., & Magai, C. (1998). Depression among African American nursing home patients with dementia. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 6(2), 162-175.
• Cooper, Claudia; Livingston, Gill. (2010). A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Ethnic Differences in Use of Dementia Treatment, Care, and Research. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 18(3), 193-203.
• Daker-White, G., Beattie, A. M., Gilliard, J., & Means, R. (2002). Minority ethnic groups in dementia care: A review of service needs, service provision and models of good practice. Aging and Mental Health, 6(2), 101-108.
• Dale, William; Hougham, Gavin W.; Hill, Emily Kay; Sachs, Greg A. (2006). High interest in screening and treatment for mild cognitive impairment in older adults: a pilot study. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 54(9), 1388-94.
• Dilworth-Anderson, Peggye; Hendrie, Hugh C.; Manly, Jennifer J.; Khachaturian, Ara S.; Fazio, Sam. (2008). Diagnosis and assessment of Alzheimer's disease in diverse populations. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 4(4), 305-309.
• Espino, D. V., & Lewis, R. (1998). Dementia in older minority populations: Issues of prevalence, diagnosis, and treatment. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 6(2), S19-25.
• Fillenbaum, Gerda G.; Kuchibhatla, Maragatha; Henderson, Victor W.; Clark, Christopher M.; Taussig, I. Maribel. (2007). Comparison of performance on the CERAD Neurological Battery of Hispanic patients and cognitively normal controls at two sites. Clinical Gerontologist, 30(3), 1-22.
• Glosser, G., Wolfe, N., Albert, M., Lavine, L., Steele, J., Calne, D., et al. (1993). Cross-cultural cognitive examination: Validation of a dementia screening instrument for neuroepidemiological research. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 41(9), 931-939.
• Grober, Ellen; Hall, Charles; Lipton, Richard B.; Teresi, Jeanne A. (2008). Primary care screen for early dementia. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 56(2), 206-213.
• Hinton, Ladson, Franz, Carol & Friend, Jeffrey. (2004). Evidence for cross-ethnic differences. Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders, 18(3), 134-144.
• Hipps, Y. G., Roberts, J. S., Farrer, L. A., & Green, R. C. (2003). Differences between African Americans and whites in their attitudes toward genetic testing for Alzheimer's disease. Genetic Testing, 7(1), 39-44.
• Husaini, B. A., Sherkat, D. E., Moonis, M., Levine, R., Holzer, C., & Cain, V. A. (2003). Racial differences in the diagnosis of dementia and its effects on the use and costs of health care services. Psychiatric Services, 54(1), 92-96.
• Krull, Amy C. (2005). First signs and normalizations: caregiver routes to the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Aging Studies, 19(4), 407-417.
• Jervis, L. L., & Manson, S. M. (2002). American Indians/Alaska Natives and dementia. Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders, 16(Suppl. 2), S89-95.
• Lee, Sang E.; Diwan, Sadhna. (2010). What do Korean American immigrants know about Alzheimer's disease (AD)? The impact of acculturation and exposure to the disease on AD knowledge. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 25(1), 66-73.
• Lister, Susan; Benson, Chris. (2006). Comparative analysis of dementia and ethnicity in the New South Wales Aged Care Assessment Program: 1996 and 2001. Australasian Journal on Aging, 25(1), 24-30.
• LoGiudice, D.; Smith, K.; Thomas, J.; Lautenschlager, N.T.; Almeida, O.P.; Atkinson, D.; Flicker, L. (2006). Kimberly Indigenous Cognitive Assessment tool (KICA): development of a cognitive assessment tool for older indigenous Australians. International Psychogeriatrics, 18(2), 269-80.
• Lourenco, Roberto Alves; Filho, Sergio Telles Ribeiro. (2006). The accuracy of the Mini-Cog in screening low-educated elderly for dementia. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 54(2): 376-77.
• Lyle, Sarah; Grizzell, Moni; Willmott, Sasi; Benbow, Susan; Clark, Michael; Jolley, David. (2008). Treatment of a whole population sample of Alzheimer's disease with donepezil over a 4-year period: Lessons learned. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 25(3), 226-231.
• Maeck, Lienhard; Haak, Sebastian; Knoblauch, Anita; Stoppe, Gabriela. (2008). Dementia diagnostics in primary care: A representative 8-year follow-up study in lower Saxony, Germany. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 25(2), 127-134.
• Manly, Jennifer J.; Schupf, Nicole; Stern, Yaakov; Brickman, Adam M.; Tang, Ming-X.; Mayeux, Richard. (2011). Telephone-based identification of mild cognitive impairment and dementia in a multicultural cohort. Archives of Neurology, 68(5), 607-614.
• Manly, Jennifer J.; Tang, Ming-X.; Schupf, Nicole; Stern, Yaakov; Vonsattel, Jean-Paul G.; Mayeux, Richard. (2008). Frequency and course of mild cognitive impairment in a multiethnic community. Annals of Neurology, 63(4), 494-506.
• Manly, J. J., & Espino, D. V. (2004). Cultural influences on dementia recognition and management. Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 20(1), 93-119.
• Mast, B. T., Fitzgerald, J., Steinberg, J., MacNeill, S. E., & Lichtenberg, P. A. (2001). Effective screening for Alzheimer's disease among older African Americans. Clinical Neuropsychologist, 15(2), 196-202.
• Mukadam, Naaheed; Cooper, Claudia; Livingston, Gill. (2011). A systematic review of ethnicity and pathways to care in dementia. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 26(1), 12-20.
• Nielsen, T. Rune; Vogel, Asmus; Riepe, Matthias W.; Rodriguez, Guido; Nobili, Flavio; Gade, Anders; Waldemar, Gunhild. (2011). Assessment of dementia in ethnic minority patients in Europe: A European Alzheimer's Disease Consortium survey. International Psychogeriatrics, 23(1), 86-95.
• Parker, Chris, Philp, Ian. (2004). Screening for cognitive impairment among older people in black and minority ethnic groups. Age and Ageing, 33(5), 447-452.
• Piguet, Olivier, Kril, Jillian J. (2009). Frontotemporal dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies in a case-control study of Alzheimer's disease. International Psychogeriatrics, 21(4), 688-695.
• Potter, Guy G., Plassman, Brenda L., Burke, James R., Kabeto, Mohammed U., Langa, Kenneth M., Llewellyn, David J., Rogers, Mary A. M., Steffens, David C. (2009). Cognitive performance and informant reports in the diagnosis of cognitive impairment and dementia in African Americans and Whites. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 5(6), 445-453.
• Prince, M., Acosta, D., Chiu, H., Scazufca, M., & Varghese, M. (2003). Dementia diagnosis in developing countries: A cross-cultural validation study. Lancet, 361(9361), 909.
• Ramsey, Victoria; Stevens, Susan; Bryan, Karen; Binder, Julia; Cockle-Hearne, Jane. (2009). Using the Barnes Language Assessment with older ethnic minority groups. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 24(4), 426-431.
• Shen, Jianzhao; Gao, Sujuan; Unverzagt, Frederick W.; Ogunniyi, Adesola; Baiyewu, Olusegun; Gureje, Oye; Hendrie, Hugh C.; Hall, Kathleen S. (2006). Validation analysis of informant's ratings of cognitive function in African Americans and Nigerians. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 21(7), 618-25.
• Smith-Gamble, V., Baiyewu, O., Perkins, A. J., Gureje, O., Hall, K. S., Ogunniyi, A., et al. (2002). Informant reports of changes in personality predict dementia in a population-based study of elderly African Americans and Yoruba. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 10(6), 724-732.
• Teng, E. L. (2002). Cultural and educational factors in the diagnosis of dementia. Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders, 16(Suppl. 2), S77-79.
• Trinh, Nhi-Ha; Ahmed, Iqbal. (2009). Acculturation and Asian American elderly. In: Trinh, Nhi-Ha; Rho, Yanni Chun; Lu, Francis G.; Sanders, Kathy Marie (eds.) Handbook of mental health and acculturation in Asian American families. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.
• Vincze, Gabor; Almos, Peter; Boda, Krisztina; Dome, Peter. (2007). Risk factors of cognitive decline in residential care in Hungary. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 22(12), 1208-1216.
• Weintraub, D., Raskin, A., Ruskin, P. E., Gruber-Baldini, A. L., Zimmerman, S. I., Hebel, J. R., et al. (2000). Racial differences in the prevalence of dementia among patients admitted to nursing homes. Psychiatric Services, 51(10), 1259-1264.
• Wang, Jeng; Mentes, Janet C. (2006). Detection of acute confusion in Taiwanese elderly individuals. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 32(6), 7-12.
• Whitfield, K. E. (2002). Challenges in cognitive assessment of African Americans in research on Alzheimer disease. Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders, 16(Suppl. 2), S80-81.
• Williams, Christine L.; Tappen, Ruth M.; Rosselli, Monica; Keane, Florence; Newlin, Kelley. (2010). Willingness to be screened and tested for cognitive impairment: Cross-cultural comparison. American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias, 25(2), 160-166.
• Wilson, R. S.; Aggarwal, N. T.; Barnes, L. L.; Mendes de Leon, C. F.; Hebert, L. E.; Evans, D. A. (2010). Cognitive decline in incident Alzheimer disease in a community population. Neurology, 74(12), 951-955.

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