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. 2025 Jan-Dec:40:15333175251378275.
doi: 10.1177/15333175251378275. Epub 2025 Sep 17.

Emerging Adults' Perception of the Typical Dementia Patient Based on Gender and Race

Angel I M Collie  1 , Jody S Nicholson  2 , Curtis E Phills  3
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Emerging Adults' Perception of the Typical Dementia Patient Based on Gender and Race

Angel I M Collie et al. Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen. 2025 Jan-Dec.

Abstract

IntroductionThough Black Americans are twice as likely as White Americans to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease, they may be excluded from the mental representation of a person with dementia.MethodsParticipants (N = 143, median age = 19) created visualized mental representations of a person, a man, a woman, a Black man, or a Black woman diagnosed with dementia by repeatedly selecting which among 12 faces looked most like each target category.ResultsThe visualized representation of a person with dementia was more similar to the representation of a man and a Black woman than to a Black man and a woman, respectively.DiscussionThese findings highlight how intersectionality shapes mental representations of dementia, revealing that certain combinations of marginalized identities are perceived differently rather than excluded entirely.

Keywords: Alzheimer’s disease; dementia; gendered race; intersectionality; prejudice.

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Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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