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P3–233: Driving issues in people with frontotemporal dementia
Author(s) -
Dugan Elizabeth,
Turk Kristina,
Wang ShuangShuang
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1016/j.jalz.2013.05.1306
Subject(s) - frontotemporal dementia , dementia , psychology , psychiatry , irritability , clinical psychology , disease , medicine , anxiety , pathology
gender, race/ethnicity, age, caregiver status and self-reported source of AD knowledge. Results: All 3 scales discriminated between men and women, and between African Americans and European Americans. The symptom/ treatment and total scales discriminated between age groups variously defined, between primary and secondary caregivers, between caregivers and non-caregivers, and between those who claimed the Alzheimer’s Association as a source of knowledge and those who did not.Conclusions:Reliable scales that discriminate between groups defined by socio-demographic, cultural and other, AD-relevant variables can be created using items derived from in-depth interviews with populations of interest. Based on these results, suggestions for designing and targeting health education and outreach materials for specific demographic and cultural groups are discussed.