Ethnic Minority Elderly People

Diabetes in African Caribbean, and Indo-Asian ethnic minority people.

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Neuropsychological tests for assessment of healthy ethnic minority elderly population.

I read with great interest the paper “Comparison of performance on three neuropsychological tests in healthy Turkish immigrants and Danish elderly” authored by Nielsen et al. (2012) in International Psychogeriatrics. In their study, 73 Turkish with lower educational level and 36 Danish older subjects were assessed on the Recall of Pictures Test (RPT), Clock Reading Test (CRT), and supermarket f...

Ethnic Minority Empowerment

Ethnic minority students throughout the world have experienced disproportional school failure in education systems organized, administered, and controlled by members of the dominant group. This pattern is common to minority groups in most western countries who have been conquered, subjugated, segregated, and regarded as inherently inferior by the dominant group. Educational failure is regarded ...

Diagnosis of mental illness in elderly people from ethnic minorities

From the 1991 census (Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, 1993) it is estimated that 5.9% of the total population of England and Wales belong to an ethnic minority, and that 3% of this ethnic minority population are aged 65 years and older. This compares with 17% aged 65 years and older in the indigenous population. Although the numbers of elderly people from ethnic minorities are small ...

The ethnic density effect on the health of ethnic minority people in the United Kingdom: a study of hypothesised pathways