COGNITIVE TEST PERFORMANCE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ELDERS

描述：(改编自调查人员摘要)：这是新的 调查员奖。在目前的研究中，500名非洲裔美国人的样本 老年人将从正在进行的老龄化流行病学研究中招募 和曼哈顿北部的痴呆症。受试者将接受神经心理学检查 测试组合，以及教育经验、识字和 文化适应。具体目标是调查 人口统计特征，如年龄和性别、教育程度和环境 神经心理学的教育经历、文化素养和文化适应水平 测试性能。调查人员还将研究识字水平和 教育变量可以解释神经心理测试的差异 得分在认知完好无损、年龄和教育相匹配、黑人和白人之间 美国人。研究人员将对神经心理进行调整 非裔美国长老的测试分数(即常模)。然后他们将确定 如果调整与日常功能测量相关联，以及是否 适当调整的神经心理测试的表现是有预测性的 随着时间的推移，功能的变化。他们的最终目标是改善 对老年非洲人实施神经心理测量的诊断效用 美国人。

Description: (adapted from investigator's abstract): This is new investigator award. In the present study, a sample of 500 African American older persons will be recruited from an ongoing epidemiologic study of aging and dementia in north Manhattan. The subjects will receive a neuropsychological test battery, as well as measures of educational experience, literacy and acculturation. Specific aims are to investigate the potential influence of demographic features such as age and gender, education and setting of educational experience, literacy, and acculturation level on neuropsychological test performance. Investigators will also study whether literacy level and education variables can account for differences in neuropsychological test score between cognitively intact, age and education matched, black and white Americans. The investigators will develop adjustments for neuropsychological test scores (i.e., norms) for African American elders. They will then determine if the adjustments are associated with everyday function measures and whether performance on appropriately adjusted neuropsychological tests are predictive of change in functioning over time. Their ultimate goal is to improve the diagnostic utility of neuropsychological measures administered to older African Americans.