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ArticleJournal of Alzheimer's disease reports2024

Is Effective Recruitment Strategy Critical to Assess Brain Cognitive Function of Super Agers in Rural West Texas.

Malcolm Brownell, Ujala Sehar, Sudhir Kshirsagar, P Hemachandra Reddy

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Article in Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Malcolm BrownellDepartment of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Ujala SeharDepartment of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Sudhir KshirsagarDepartment of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA.
P Hemachandra ReddyDepartment of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Our commentary aims to elucidate the importance of participant recruitment strategy in healthy brain aging study, particularly in rural West Texas, where more than 50% of the population are Hispanics and Latinos. The objective of our health aging study is to investigate the possible influence of biological, sociodemographic, and lifestyle factors on the occurrence of chronic diseases and dementia in the aging populations of West Texas. The success of this initiative is, in large part, reliant on high-quality, effective recruitment of participants. To that end, we propose an increase in our strategic recruitment efforts for both healthy, cognitively superior agers as well as those with mild cognitive impairment and patients with Alzheimer's disease in rural west Texas. We discussed, multi-advertising approaches, including ads in the local newspapers, local TV Channels and poster boards in senior centers.

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Alzheimer’s diseasedementiahealthy agingmild cognitive impairmentrecruitment strategiesrural elderly

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PMID38549637
PMCPMC10977459

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