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Anticipatory dementia
— a link between memory appraisals and concerns about developing Alzheimer's disease | | Author(s) | Stephen J Cutler, Lynne Gershenson Hodgson |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 36, no 5, October 1996 |
| Pages | pp 657-664 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Anxiety ; Evaluation ; Variance analysis. |
| Annotation | In this exploratory study examining the link between memory appraisals and personal concerns about developing Alzheimer's disease (AD), a sample of people aged 40-60 including adult children living with a parent with AD (N=25) was compared with 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 AD within both subsamples. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970528010 A |
| Classmark | EA: DB: ENP: 4C: 3YA |
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