Race is a critical sociodemographic variable that may serve as a marker for genetic, clinical, cultural, and socioeconomic factors. There have been several studies that found differences between African Americans and Whites in the neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia. There have been fairly consistent findings that psychotic symptoms—hallucinations and delusions—are more prevalent among African American patients with dementia (Cohen & Carlin, 1993; Cooper et al., 1991, Deutsch et al., 1991; Fabrega et al., 1988), and that depression is higher among Whites than among African Americans (Fabrega et al., 1988; Walker et al., 1995). One study by Class and colleagues (1996) also suggested that behavioral disturbances might be higher among White than among African American nursing home patients, a majority of whom had dementia.