Risk factors for nursing home placement in a population-based dementia cohort
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Risk factors for nursing home placement are discussed relative to a study of a population-based 314-person dementia cohort and it was found that cumulative incidence of placement was 90% in the dementia group and 50% in controls. Factors which appear to have an effect on time to placement in all older people include living in assisted living arrangements, age, increasing need for functional assistance and increasing comorbidity scores. The medical records linkage system at the Mayo Clinic was used to identify patients with dementia onset.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2000
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Financial incentives for placing feeding tubes in nursing home residents with advanced dementia
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Financial incentives for putting feeding tubes into nursing home residents with advanced dementia are discussed from the perspective of the two major payors, Medicare and Medicaid. Evidence that benefits from this practice are lacking is growing.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2003
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Use of physician and acute care services by persons with and without Alzheimer's disease: a population-based comparison
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Onset of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is not associated with greater use of acute care services , nor is high use of nursing home care in this group offset by fewer ER or hospital use incidents, according to a population-based comparison has been carried out by means of an historical cohort study to investigate use of physician and acute care services by persons with and without AD. All residents of Rochester, MN, with AD onset between 1/1/80 and 12/31/84, numbering 301, and nondemented controls matched by age and sex were subjects. Subjects, both the AD patient and the control for that patient, were followed in medical records in the year before 1/1 of the year of onset of AD and in the 4 years following 12/31 of the year of onset.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 1999
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