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Due to the rapid increase of the number in people with dementia, social costs of dementia are also expected to rise.
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Average annual cost among patients diagnosed with dementia was €43,259, primarily incurred by accommodation.
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Care home residents are often frail with multiple comorbidities and cognitive impairment, most commonly caused by dementia.
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This article, the second of two, provides healthcare practitioners with an overview of best practice in palliative and end-of-life care, including nutrition, hydration, oral hygiene and pain management.
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Currently, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Common Format for nursing homes (NHs) accommodates voluntary reporting for 4 adverse events: falls with injury, pressure ulcers, medication errors, and infections.
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Since the Liverpool Care Pathway has been withdrawn in the UK, clinicians supporting the palliative needs of patients have faced further challenges, particularly for patients with dementia who are unable to go to a hospice owing to challenging behaviours.
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Dementia is a life-limiting condition that is largely a disease of ageing.
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Racial and ethnic minorities currently comprise 20% of the U.S. population; in 2050, this figure is expected to rise to 42%.
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More hallucinatory experiences, social isolation, and loneliness were found in the AD group than in the healthy control group.
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Although 80% of the deaths worldwide occur in middle- and low-income countries such as India, there is less awareness of end-of-life care (EOLC) for people with chronic, serious, progressive, or advanced life-limiting illnesses, including dementia.
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Hospice use over 2 weeks was associated with decreased hospital days (1-5 days overall, with greater decreases for longer hospice use) for all beneficiaries; spending was $900-$5,000 less for hospice use of 31-90 days for most beneficiaries not in nursing homes, except beneficiaries with Alzheimer's. Overall spending decreased with hospice use for beneficiaries in nursing homes with lung cancer only, with a $3,500 reduction.
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This paper will highlight some of the pertinent issues associated with palliative and end-of-life decision-making in relation to dementia.
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Family caregivers of patients with frontotemporal dementia identify behavioral disturbances as most troubling.
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Advance care planning is the basis for delivering person-centred end of life care that accords with the wishes of the individual.
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Case management for persons with dementia may increase use of community-based services and delay nursing home admission.
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Older patients with dementia and delirium are more prone to adverse events in hospital, but formal cognitive assessment to identify these vulnerable patients on admission is often not carried out by junior doctors.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) burden of disease study identified dementia and hearing problems as leading causes of loss of quality of life in the industrial world.
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A theoretical definition of caregiver stress is provided, and the defining attributes, related concepts, antecedents, and consequences of caregiver stress are proposed, and case studies are presented.
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Close to two-thirds of all US nursing home residents have some type of cognitive impairment such as Alzheimer's disease, and the quality of care and quality of life of these people has long been called into question.
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Over the past two decades the collaborative care model within primary care has proved to be effective in improving care quality, efficiency, and outcomes for older adults suffering from dementia and depression.
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To better understand the process and outcomes of family involvement for long-term care residents with varying stages of dementia, we analyzed family and staff data for 467 residents of 24 residential care/assisted living and nursing-home settings.
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Older adults' sexuality and sexual expression are often overlooked in nursing home and residential care settings.
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IT WAS the 'gradual realisation' that what he had been taught about dementiain his nurse and social work training was simply 'not helpful' that prompted Colm Cunningham's interest in dementia research, he says.
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Random effects results suggest that caregiver burden weakens the inverse relationship between health utilities and institutional service use, leading to greater likelihood of institutional use than would be expected at a given level of health.
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Less than half of older adults with depression achieve remission with antidepressant medications, and rates of remission are even poorer for those with comorbid conditions.
From across this topic
9 of the 1,022 studies in this topic, picked by a fixed rule (a hash of each study's address), not by score or date; each page of this list shows a different 9. The same 9 appear here every time.
- Determining Evidence for Family Caregiver Communication: Associating Communication Behaviors With Breakdown and Repair
- Prevalence of dementia in nursing home and community-dwelling older adults in Germany
- Palliative Care and Dementia: What All Advanced Practice Nurses Should Know
- Course and outcomes of depression in the elderly
- Guiding design of dementia friendly environments in residential care settings: Considering the living experiences
- Validating the 8 CPCSSN case definitions for chronic disease surveillance in a primary care database of electronic health records
- The Homestead: Developing a Conceptual Framework through Co-Creation for Innovating Long-Term Dementia Care Environments
- Mortality and hospitalization at the end of life in newly admitted nursing home residents with and without dementia
- The Geriatric Depression Scale: a review of its development and utility