Korn, L., Logsdon, R. G., Polissar, N. L., Gomez-Beloz, A., Waters, T., Ryser, R.

Purpose: Although it is widely recognized that caregivers of individuals with dementia experience elevated stress that places them at increased risk for health problems, little is known about how caregiving stress may be alleviated among underserved ethnic minority populations. The purpose of this study was to compare a complementary and alternative medicine therapy, polarity therapy […]

Hosking, Diane E., Nettelbeck, Ted, Wilson, Carlene, Danthiir, Vanessa

Dietary intake is a modifiable exposure that may have an impact on cognitive outcomes in older age. The long-term aetiology of cognitive decline and dementia, however, suggests that the relevance of dietary intake extends across the lifetime. In the present study, we tested whether retrospective dietary patterns from the life periods of childhood, early adulthood, […]

Gibbons, Laura E., McCurry, Susan, Rhoads, Kristoffer, Masaki, Kamal, White, Lon, Borenstein, Amy R., Larson, Eric B., Crane, Paul K.

Background: The Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument (CASI) was designed for use in cross-cultural studies of Japanese and Japanese-American elderly in Japan and the U.S.A. The measurement equivalence in Japanese and English had not been confirmed in prior studies.; Methods: We analyzed the 40 CASI items for differential item functioning (DIF) related to test language, as […]

Gallagher-Thompson, Dolores, Wang, Peng-Chih, Liu, Weiling, Cheung, Vinnie, Peng, Rebecca, China, Danielle, Thompson, Larry W.

Prior research (Gallagher-Thompson, D., Gray, H., Tang, P., Pu, C.-Y., Tse, C., Hsu, S., et al. (2007). Impact of in-home intervention versus telephone support in reducing depression and stress of Chinese caregivers: Results of a pilot study. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 15, 425-434.) found that an in-home behavioral management program, derived conceptually from cognitive […]

Fujiwara, Yoshinori, Suzuki, Hiroyuki, Yasunaga, Masashi, Sugiyama, Mika, Ijuin, Mutsuo, Sakuma, Naoko, Inagaki, Hiroki, Iwasa, Hajime, Ura, Chiaki, Yatomi, Naomi, Ishii, Kenji, Tokumaru, Aya M, Homma, Akira, Nasreddine, Ziad, Shinkai, Shoji

Aim: The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), developed by Dr Nasreddine (Nasreddine et al. 2005), is a brief cognitive screening tool for detecting older people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). We examined the reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the MoCA (MoCA-J) in older Japanese subjects.; Methods: Subjects were recruited from the outpatient memory […]

Au, Alma, Li, Sapphire, Lee, Kristy, Leung, Patrick, Pan, Pey-Chyou, Thompson, Larry, Gallagher-Thompson, Dolores

Objective: This pilot study evaluated the effectiveness of Coping with Caregiving (CWC) psychoeducational program for Chinese family caregivers of patients with Alzheimer’s disease in Hong Kong.; Method: Twenty-seven female primary caregivers were randomized to join the treatment group or wait-list control group. The caregivers in the treatment group participated in 13 weekly training sessions which […]