<p>The purpose of this study was to investigate Baby Boomers? knowledge of
Alzheimer?s disease (AD) and how a boomer?s age, race/ethnicity, sex, and contact with
the disease were associated with knowledge levels. Knowledge was tested using the
Alzheimer?s Disease Knowledge Scale (ADKS). Results included 86 participants and
indicated that there was a direct relationship between the age of Baby Boomers and their
overall knowledge of AD in that the older the individual the more knowledgeable they
were about AD. Furthermore, the following results were obtained about knowledge of
AD based on the subscales of the ADKS: the older an individual, the more knowledge
they had about symptoms, females were less knowledgeable about the risk factors than
males in the sample, Hispanics were less knowledgeable about assessment and diagnosis
of AD than other ethnicities, the longer an individual had contact with someone with AD,
the more knowledgeable they were on the course of the disease process.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:PROQUEST/oai:pqdtoai.proquest.com:10603977 |
| Date | 03 November 2017 |
| Creators | Nadeau, Elizabeth M. |
| Publisher | California State University, Long Beach |
| Source Sets | ProQuest.com |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis |
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