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Informal and formal care among persons with dementia immediately before nursing home admission
Arnt Egil Ydstebø, Jurate Šaltytė Benth, Sverre Bergh, Geir Selbæk, Corinna Vossius. BMC geriatrics, 2020-08-18
Topic: Health services, long-term care and technology
A total of 395 persons with dementia were included. The amount of informal care provided by the family caregiver was 141.9 h per month SD = 227.4. Co-resident patients received five times more informal care than non-co-residents. Informal care from the extended social network was provided to 212 patients (53.7%) with a mean of 5.6 (SD = 11.2) hours per month and represented 3.8% of the total informal care rendered to the patients. Formal care was provided to 52.7% of the patients with a mean of 18.0 (SD = 50.1) hours per month. Co-residency was significantly associated with more informal care, and the associations varied with respect to age, relation to the caregiver, and the caregiver's working situation. Good/excellent general health was associated with less formal care. Persons with dementia on the verge of admission to a nursing home are mainly supported by the family caregiver, and the use of informal care is particularly high among co-residents. In order to delay nursing home admission, future research should explore the unrealized care potential in extended social networks, as well as the potential for increasing the number of recipients of formal care services.
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Ydstebø, A. E., Benth, J. Š., Bergh, S., Selbæk, G., & Vossius, C. (2020). Informal and formal care among persons with dementia immediately before nursing home admission. BMC geriatrics. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-020-01703-8
Vancouver
Ydstebø AE, Benth JŠ, Bergh S, Selbæk G, Vossius C. Informal and formal care among persons with dementia immediately before nursing home admission. BMC geriatrics. 2020. doi:10.1186/s12877-020-01703-8. PMID: 32811440.
BibTeX
@article{ydstebo2020-32811440,
author = {Ydstebø, Arnt Egil and Benth, Jurate Šaltytė and Bergh, Sverre and Selbæk, Geir and Vossius, Corinna},
title = {{Informal and formal care among persons with dementia immediately before nursing home admission}},
journal = {BMC geriatrics},
year = {2020},
doi = {10.1186/s12877-020-01703-8},
pmid = {32811440},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-020-01703-8}
}
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Key findings
- A total of 395 persons with dementia were included.
- The amount of informal care provided by the family caregiver was 141.9 h per month SD = 227.4.
- Co-resident patients received five times more informal care than non-co-residents.
- Informal care from the extended social network was provided to 212 patients (53.7%) with a mean of 5.6 (SD = 11.2) hours per month and represented 3.8% of the total informal care rendered to the patients.
- Formal care was provided to 52.7% of the patients with a mean of 18.0 (SD = 50.1) hours per month.
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Study details
- Study designcross-sectional
- Participants395
- Effect size53.7%; 3.8%; 52.7%
- Evidence strengthLow
How this study scored 59/100
Published in a peer-reviewed journal, and it is a snapshot of people at one point in time. Scored zero for randomized / blinded because the record does not state it. We have no data on journal's citation record, times cited, citations per year, impact for its field and year, cited by studies here, still being cited, senior author's track record, institution's track record, multicenter collaboration and free to read, so those were left out: it earned 33 of the 56 points we could judge it on, which is 59 out of 100.
| Component | Points | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Journal tier | 7 / 10 | Tier 3 — peer-reviewed journal (BMC geriatrics) |
| Journal's citation record | — / 4 | No journal record from OpenAlex — left out of this score |
| Study design | 4 / 12 | A snapshot of people at one point in time |
| Strength of evidence | 1 / 5 | Rated “low” in our summary |
| Peer-review validation | 10 / 10 | Peer-reviewed. Published as an article in a named peer-reviewed journal. |
| How recent | 2 / 5 | 2020 — within 10 year(s) of the newest study here |
| Sample size | 2 / 4 | 395 participants |
| Effect reported | 2 / 3 | Effect reported as a number, without an interval or test |
| Studied in people | 3 / 3 | Studied in people (participant count stated) |
| Randomized / blinded | 0 / 2 | No randomization or blinding stated — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Times cited | — / 7 | No citation count (not found in OpenAlex) — left out of this score |
| Citations per year | — / 5 | No citation count or no year — left out of this score |
| Impact for its field and year | — / 6 | No field-weighted citation impact (OpenAlex has none yet) — left out of this score |
| Cited by studies here | — / 6 | Not yet checked against this library's citation graph — left out of this score |
| Still being cited | — / 4 | No yearly citation counts — left out of this score |
| Senior author's track record | — / 4 | Senior author's record not available — left out of this score |
| Institution's track record | — / 3 | No institution listed in OpenAlex — left out of this score |
| Multicenter collaboration | — / 3 | Institutions not listed — left out of this score |
| Indexed in PubMed | 2 / 2 | Indexed in PubMed (PMID 32811440) |
| Free to read | — / 2 | Access not recorded — left out of this score |
| Points | 33 / 56 | Scored on 10 of 20 parts. We have no data for the rest, so they are left out: 33 of the 56 points we could judge it on is 59 out of 100. |
| Total | 59 / 100 | — |
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