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Addressing Racial Compatibility Between Trainees and Minority Older Adults in Applied Care Settings

This talk explores the importance of a racially diverse graduate student interacting in an applied care setting with minority older adults in the Southeast relative to assessment of cognitive status and in the context of cultural mistrust and misdiagnosis. ~250 older adults (16% AA) in an applied ca...

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Autor principal: McDuffie, Danielle
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7742321/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.3055
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description This talk explores the importance of a racially diverse graduate student interacting in an applied care setting with minority older adults in the Southeast relative to assessment of cognitive status and in the context of cultural mistrust and misdiagnosis. ~250 older adults (16% AA) in an applied care setting were administered a cognitive screener as part of a larger research battery. An independent samples t-test was conducted to assess differences in mean cognitive status. Non-Hispanic Whites (NHW) (M=76.8 years) were found to be more intact than AAs (M=73.27) on measures of cognitive status (21.32 vs. 14.72, t=4.976, p=.0001). Implications highlight that cognitive screeners have often been found to lack sensitivity in groups of marginalized older adults. Having an AA graduate student in these settings could be a way of mitigating the effects of culturally incompatible screening tools and bridging the gap between research and practice for AA older adults.
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spelling pubmed-77423212020-12-21 Addressing Racial Compatibility Between Trainees and Minority Older Adults in Applied Care Settings McDuffie, Danielle Innov Aging Abstracts This talk explores the importance of a racially diverse graduate student interacting in an applied care setting with minority older adults in the Southeast relative to assessment of cognitive status and in the context of cultural mistrust and misdiagnosis. ~250 older adults (16% AA) in an applied care setting were administered a cognitive screener as part of a larger research battery. An independent samples t-test was conducted to assess differences in mean cognitive status. Non-Hispanic Whites (NHW) (M=76.8 years) were found to be more intact than AAs (M=73.27) on measures of cognitive status (21.32 vs. 14.72, t=4.976, p=.0001). Implications highlight that cognitive screeners have often been found to lack sensitivity in groups of marginalized older adults. Having an AA graduate student in these settings could be a way of mitigating the effects of culturally incompatible screening tools and bridging the gap between research and practice for AA older adults. Oxford University Press 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7742321/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.3055 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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