<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wackerbarth, S. B.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Johnson, M. M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Markesbery, W. R.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Smith, C. D.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Urban-rural differences in a memory disorders clinical population</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">J Am Geriatr Soc</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Activities of Daily Living</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Age Distribution</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Aged</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ambulatory Care Facilities</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Attitude to Health</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cross-Sectional Studies</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Educational Status</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Family/ psychology</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Female</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Geriatric Assessment</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Humans</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kentucky/epidemiology</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Male</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Memory Disorders/ diagnosis/epidemiology/etiology/ psychology</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mental Status Schedule</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Personality</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Residence Characteristics/ statistics &amp; numerical data</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Risk Factors</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rural Health/ statistics &amp; numerical data</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sex Distribution</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Small-Area Analysis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Urban Health/ statistics &amp; numerical data</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2001</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">May</style></date></pub-dates></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">5</style></number><edition><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2001/06/15</style></edition><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">49</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">647-50</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">0002-8614 (Print)0002-8614 (Linking)</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">OBJECTIVES: To compare patient characteristics and family perceptions of patient function at one urban and one rural memory disorders clinic. DESIGN: Secondary, cross-sectional data analyses of an extant clinical database. SETTING/PARTICIPANTS: First time visits (n = 956) at two memory disorders clinics. MEASUREMENTS: Patient and family-member demographics and assessment results for the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), activities of daily living (ADLs), the Memory Change and Personality Change components of the Blessed Dementia Rating Scale, and the Revised Memory and Behavior Problems Checklist. RESULTS: In both clinics, patients and family members were more likely female. The typical urban clinic patient was significantly more likely to be living in a facility and more educated than the typical rural patient. Urban and rural patients did not show significant differences in age- and education-adjusted MMSE scores or raw ADL/IADL ratings, but the urban family members reported more memory problems, twice as many personality changes, more-frequent behavior problems, and more adverse reactions to problems. CONCLUSION: Physicians who practice in both urban and rural areas can anticipate differences between patients, and their families, who seek a diagnosis of memory disorders. Our most important finding is that despite similarities in reported functional abilities, urban families appear to be more sensitive to and more distressed by patients' cognitive and behavioral symptoms than rural families. These differences may reflect different underlying needs, and should be explored in further research.</style></abstract><accession-num><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">11380760</style></accession-num><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wackerbarth, S BJohnson, M MMarkesbery, W RSmith, C DAG05144/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United StatesComparative StudyResearch Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.United StatesJournal of the American Geriatrics SocietyJ Am Geriatr Soc. 2001 May;49(5):647-50.</style></notes><auth-address><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Martin School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40506, USA.</style></auth-address><remote-database-provider><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nlm</style></remote-database-provider></record></records></xml>