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

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• Ayalon, Liat; Arean, Patricia; Bornfeld, Heather; Beard, Renee. (2009). Long term care staff beliefs about evidence based practices for the management of dementia and agitation. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 24(2), 118-124.
• Buhr, Gwendolen T.; Kuchibhatla, Maragatha; Clipp, Elizabeth C. (2006). Caregivers' reasons for nursing home placement: clues for improving discussions with families prior to the transition. Gerontologist 46(1): 52-61.
• Cox, C. (1996). Outcomes of hospitalization: factors influencing the discharges of African American and white dementia patients. Social Work in Health Care, 23(1), 23-38.
• Gessert, Charles E.; Haller, Irina V.; Kane, Robert L.; Degenholtz, Howard. (2006). Rural-urban differences in medical care for nursing home residents with severe dementia at the end of life. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 54(8), 1199-1205.
• Mausbach, B. T., Coon, D. W., Depp, C., Rabinowitz, Y. G., Wilson-Arias, E., Kraemer, H. C., et al. (2004). Ethnicity and time to institutionalization of dementia patients: A comparison of Latina and Caucasian female family caregivers. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 52(7), 1077-1084.
• McCaskill, Gina M.; Burgio, Louis D.; DeCoster, Jamie; Roff, Lucinda Lee. (2011). The use of Morycz's Desire-to-Institutionalize Scale across three racial/ethnic groups. Journal of Aging and Health, 23(1), 195-202.
• Miller, S., Prohaska, T., & Furner, S. (1999). Nursing home admission for African Americans with Alzheimer's disease. Journals of Gerontology (Series A), 54A(7), M365-369.
• Mitchell, Susan L.; Teno, Joan M.; Intrator, Orna; Feng, Zhanlian; Mor, Vincent. (2007). Decisions to forgo hospitalization in advanced dementia: A nationwide study. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 55(3), 432-8.
• Samus, Quincy M.; Mayer, Lawrence; Baker, Alva; McNabney, Matthew; Brandt, Jason; Onyike, Chiadi U.; Rabins, Peter V.; Lyketsos, Constantine G.; Rosenblatt, Adam. (2008). Characteristics and outcomes for assisted living residents with dementia: comparing dementia-specific care units with non-dementia-specific care units. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 56(7), 1361-1363.
• Shenk, Dena. (2009). Moral agency of direct care workers and the people for whom they care. Journal of Aging, Humanities and the Arts, 3(4), 285-99.
• Steven, A., Owen, J., Roth, D., Clay, O., Bartolucci, A., & Haley, W. E. (2004). Predictors of time to nursing home placement in white and African American individuals with dementia. Journal of Aging and Health, 16(3), 375-397.
• Tsolaki, M.; Alexiadou, A.; Kiosseoglou, G.; Kounti, F. (2006). Correlations between the Functional-Cognitive Assessment Scale and the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale when administered to patients with dementia residing in long-term care. American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias, 21, 274-80.
• Winslow, Betty Wehtje; Flaskerud, Jacquelyn H. (2009). Deciding to place a relative in long-term care: 'We really don't do that.' Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 30(3), 197-198.

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