Older Primary Care Patients’ Attitudes and Willingness to Screen for Dementia

Table 1

Sociodemographic characteristics and experience with Alzheimer’s disease of study participants from St. Vincent Health and Community Health Network.

	St. Vincent Health (); %	Community Health Network (); %	value
Age, years			0.051
65–69	32.3	20.5
70–74	20.6	22.1
75–79	20.6	19.7
≥80	26.5	37.7
Gender			0.172
Female	66.9	73.8
Race			<0.001
White	78.1	96.7
African American	20.9	2.5
Other	1.1	0.8
Education, years			0.003
0–11	4.3	12.3
≥12	95.7	87.7
Housing status			0.063
Living alone	33.7	43.4
Living with someone	66.3	56.6
Marital status			0.030
Married	55.8	45.1
Widowed	28.3	43.4
Divorced	11.6	8.2
Never married	4.3	3.3
Income			0.124
<$10,000	4.1	5.1
$10,000–$19,999	17.3	20.4
$20,000–$39,999	28.4	38.8
≥$40,000	50.2	35.7
Do you have a relative or friend with Alzheimer’s disease?			0.189
Yes	44.8	37.7
Do you believe that you are at higher risk of Alzheimer’s disease than others of your same age?			0.243
Yes	13.2	9.1
Do you think you have more memory problems than others of your same age?			0.348
Yes	7.6	5.0
Has a doctor told you that you have memory problems?			0.911
Yes	1.8	1.6
Are you taking medication to help with memory?			0.733
Yes	2.2	1.6