Anticipatory Dementia: A Link Between Memory Appraisals and Concerns About Developing Alzheimer's Disease
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- 1 October 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Gerontologist
- Vol. 36 (5) , 657-664
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/36.5.657
Abstract
This exploratory study examines the link between memory appraisals and personal concerns about developing Alzheimer's disease. The sample of persons ages 40–60 includes adult children with a living parent who has Alzheimer's disease (N = 25) and a matched group with no family history of dementia (N = 25). Using two composite measures of memory appraisals, the results show significant bivariate and multivariate relationships between self-assessments of memory functioning and concerns about developing the disease. The findings also suggest that negative memory appraisals evoke concerns about developing Alzheimer's disease within both of the subsamples.Keywords
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