Ethnicity and the Dementias

Gwen Yeo, PhD, was Founding Director of the Stanford Geriatric Education Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, where she helped develop the field of ethnogeriatrics. A major focus of her publications has been dementia and ethnicity. Linda A. Gerdner PhD, RN, FAAN, is a published author and a former ethnogeriatric specialist at the Stanford Geriatric Education Center. She has visited Hmong villages in Laos and authored three books on Hmong Americans. Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, PhD, is Professor Emerita at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is board-certified in geropsychology, specializing in treatment of late-life depression and anxiety disorders. She works with persons with dementia and family caregivers.

I would adopt this book for a course, recommend it department/committee, and use it to work on my research. The population of older adults who belong to ethnic minority groups is growing more rapidly than the white population. The need for textbooks on diverse elders with dementia will continue to increase. To my knowledge, this book is the only one in the US that addresses dementia among diverse ethnic/racial groups.  The only other book that is similar is Dementia, Culture & Ethnicity: Issues for All, edited by J. Botsford & K.H. Dening and was published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.  The content of the book is limited to the social context in the UK, and does not address the rich array of ethnic populations who live in the US.

• BACKGROUND 1. Incidence and Prevalence of Dementia in U.S. Race and Ethnic Populations Kala M. Mehta & Gwen Yeo 2. Risk Factors for Dementia Among Race and Ethnic Populations Gwen Yeo & Kala M. Mehta ASSESSMENT 3. Assessment of Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Other Forms of Dementia J. Wesson Ashford, Frederick A. Schmitt, Carr J. Smith, Vinod Kumar, and Nusha Askari 4. Dementia Assessment in African Americans Rita Hargrave 5. Dementia Assessment in American Indians Lori L. Jervis, C. Munro Cullum, Derrell Cox, & Spero M. Manson 6. Dementia Assessment in Asian Americans Cecilia S. Han & Steven Z. Chao 7. Dementia Assessment in Latino Americans Philip Sayegh, Cynthia M. Funes, & Paola Suarez WORKING WITH FAMILIES IN DEMENTIA CARE 8. Treatment and Management of Dementia in the Context of Family Care Erin Cassidy-Eagle, Rita Ghatak, Laura B. Dunn, & Marina Martin 9. Working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families David W. Coon & Melen R. McBride 10. Working with African American Families Peggye Dilworth-Anderson & Heehyul Moon 11. Working with American Indian and Alaska Native Families Jan Dougherty, Jordan P. Lewis, & Nicole Lomay ASIAN AMERICAN 12. Working with Asian Indian and South Asian American Families Sadhna Diwan, Vineeta Singh, Neelum T. Aggarwal, & Kala M. Mehta 13. Working with Chinese American Families Fei Sun & David W. Coon 14. Working with Filipino American Families Melen R. McBride 15. Working with Hmong American Families Linda A. Gerdner 16. Working with Japanese American Families Nancy Hikoyeda, Michiko Inaba, & Lauren Okamoto 17. Working with Korean American Families Banghwa Lee Casado, Sang E. Lee, & Michin Hong 18. Working with Vietnamese American Families Van My Ta Park, Carolee GiaoUyen Tran, Oanh Le Meyer, Quyen Ngoc Vuong, Jane Nha Uyen Tran, & Ladson Hinton LATINO AMERICAN 19. Working with Cuban American Families Trinidad Argüelles & Soledad Argüelles-Borge 20. Working with Mexican American Families Ann Choryan Bilbrey, Jacqueline L. Angel, Marika Blair Humber, Lakshmi Chennapragada, Iliana Garcia Ruiz, Bruno Kajiyama, and Dolores Gallagher -Thompson FUTURE RECOMMENDATIONS 21. Future Directions and Recommendations Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, Linda A. Gerdner, & Gwen Yeo