Dementia in an American-Chinese nursing home population
- 1 June 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 144 (6) , 811-812
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.6.811
Abstract
Of 58 demented residents in an American-Chinese nursing home, 44 (75.9%) had multi-infarct dementia, seven (12.1%) had possible Alzheimer''s disease, four (6.9%) had other dimentias, and three 5.2% had unknown disorders. Alzheimer''s disease was relatively less prevalent than in U.S. nursing homes overall.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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