Note: [1] Preliminary findings from this study were presented at the forty-fourth annual scientific meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, California, November 1991.
Note: [2] Funding for this project was provided by the Charles H. Farnsworth Trust Research Grants in Health Care of the Elderly. The authors gratefully acknowledge the contribution to data collection of Ruth Gordon, RN, MS, of the Community Alzheimer's Support Services, Watertown, Massachusetts; Marilyn Mulligan and Cathy Kilmartin, RN, of Community Family, Everett, Massachusetts; Elaine Silverio, RN, and Judith Antonangelli, RN, of Elder Care Connection, Holliston, Massachusetts. In addition, we thank Francis G. Caro, PhD, of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, Gerontology Institute, for his technical and analytic assistance.
