Health disparities : implications for neurogenic language and cognitive disorders -- Delivering culturally competent services to adults with neurogenic disorders / Joan C. Payne with Wilhelmina Wright-Harp -- Neurology basics -- The dementias -- Traumatic brain injury / Joan C. Payne, Wilhelmina Wright-Harp, and Alaina Davis -- Aphasia and right hemisphere disorders
Summary
This text examines how the ever-changing demographics in the United States require sensitivity and competency in clinicians treating individuals from diverse backgrounds, and also how those demographics relate to health disparities. It addresses the three key disorders that affect adults: language/cognitive disorders associated with dementia, language/cognitive disorders associated with traumatic brain injury, and aphasia and right-hemisphere disorders