INS NYC 2024 Program

Poster	Poster Session 06 Program Schedule 02/15/2024 04:00 pm - 05:15 pm Room: Shubert Complex (Posters 1-60) Poster Session 06: Aging \| MCI \| Neurodegenerative Disease - PART 2 Final Abstract #27 Screening tools for dementia assessment in UK based ethnic minorities Clara Calia, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Mario Parra, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, United Kingdom Category: Cross Cultural Neuropsychology/ Clinical Cultural Neuroscience Keyword 1: cross-cultural issues Keyword 2: dementia - Alzheimer's disease Keyword 3: assessment Objective: The number of older people from Ethnic Minorities (EM) is expected to grow in the next decade; it is imperative that proper neuropsychological assessments be given. Cognitive tests for the older adults may exhibit cultural and linguistic bias in which certain cultural sub-groups are given a degree of disadvantage on these assessments. The present study investigated whether commonly used screening tools and assessments for dementia were cross-culturally appropriate for older adults from EM groups living in the U.K. Participants and Methods: Both South Asian and British participants (N=42) were assessed using the Cross-linguistic naming test, Mini-ACE, Visual Working Memory Binding Test, and the Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale. Multi-Ethnic Acculturation Scale and English proficiency measured with a self-rated scale were associated with the four respective. No interpreters-assisted were used. Results: While members from EMs significantly differed from members of the general population in traditional neuropsychological tasks, their performance on the VSTMBT yielded results comparable to those drawn from the general population. Complex influences seem to drive the sensitivity of traditional neuropsychological tasks to sociocultural factors. Conclusions: This is the first study that subjects the novel VSTMBT to investigation in EM groups. We found that older adults from EMs showed no impact of their sociocultural backgrounds on the function assessed by this test. However, other widely recommended tests for assessment of this population proved sensitive to the investigated sociocultural factors in ways that suggest that neuropsychological assessments must abandon the one-size-fits-all notion when it comes to dementia risk detection among EM groups.

Poster

02/15/2024
04:00 pm - 05:15 pm
Room: Shubert Complex (Posters 1-60)

Poster Session 06: Aging | MCI | Neurodegenerative Disease - PART 2

Final Abstract #27

Screening tools for dementia assessment in UK based ethnic minorities

Clara Calia, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Mario Parra, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Category: Cross Cultural Neuropsychology/ Clinical Cultural Neuroscience

Keyword 1: cross-cultural issues
Keyword 2: dementia - Alzheimer's disease
Keyword 3: assessment

Objective:

The number of older people from Ethnic Minorities (EM) is expected to grow in the next decade; it is imperative that proper neuropsychological assessments be given. Cognitive tests for the older adults may exhibit cultural and linguistic bias in which certain cultural sub-groups are given a degree of disadvantage on these assessments. The present study investigated whether commonly used screening tools and assessments for dementia were cross-culturally appropriate for older adults from EM groups living in the U.K.

Participants and Methods:

Both South Asian and British participants (N=42) were assessed using the Cross-linguistic naming test, Mini-ACE, Visual Working Memory Binding Test, and the Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale. Multi-Ethnic Acculturation Scale and English proficiency measured with a self-rated scale were associated with the four respective. No interpreters-assisted were used.

Results:

While members from EMs significantly differed from members of the general population in traditional neuropsychological tasks, their performance on the VSTMBT yielded results comparable to those drawn from the general population. Complex influences seem to drive the sensitivity of traditional neuropsychological tasks to sociocultural factors.

Conclusions:

This is the first study that subjects the novel VSTMBT to investigation in EM groups. We found that older adults from EMs showed no impact of their sociocultural backgrounds on the function assessed by this test. However, other widely recommended tests for assessment of this population proved sensitive to the investigated sociocultural factors in ways that suggest that neuropsychological assessments must abandon the one-size-fits-all notion when it comes to dementia risk detection among EM groups.