The Fear of Alzheimer's Disease Scale: a new measure designed to assess anticipatory dementia in older adults

L. French, Samantha; Floyd, Mark; Schantz Wilkins, Stacy; Osato, Sheryl

doi:10.1002/gps.2747

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The Fear of Alzheimer's Disease Scale: a new measure designed to assess anticipatory dementia in older adults

Published in International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry • Jul 1, 2011

Authors:

Samantha L. French

Mark Floyd

Stacy Schantz Wilkins

Abstract

BACKGROUND: As the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is rapidly increasing, apprehension about developing the degenerative disease (anticipatory dementia or fear of developing AD) has become a topic of interest. However, most studies of anticipatory dementia have utilized brief, nonvalidated me...

Subject

Dementia

Alzheimer's disease

Psychology

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