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Association between subjective memory complaints and nursing home placement
— a four-year follow-up | | Author(s) | Frans Boch Waldorff, Volkert Siersma, Gunhild Waldemar |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 24, no 6, June 2009 |
| Pages | pp 602-609 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/gps |
| Keywords | Memory disorders ; General practice ; Admission [nursing homes] ; Correlation ; Longitudinal surveys ; Denmark. |
| Annotation | The research investigated the risk of nursing home placement during a 4-year follow-up period in order to evaluate whether older people with subjective memory complaints may be regarded as a group of potentially vulnerable patients who need close follow-up. In a prospective cohort survey with 4-year follow-up of 24 general practices in Copenhagen, Denmark, Cox proportional hazard models were used to examine the influence of risk factors on nursing home placement. Results showed a total 758 non-nursing home residents aged 65+ consulted General Practitioners in October and November 2002, of whom 50 nursing home placements were observed. Subjective memory complaints were associated with an adjusted Hazard Ratio (HR) of 2.59 for nursing home placement. Other statistical significant covariates were MMSE <24 (HR = 3.95), Age (HR = 3.92 for 75-84 years, and HR = 19.90 for 85 + years) and extreme anxiety/depression (HR = 4.74). The effect of subjective memory complaints is seen to moderate when subjects are older. The data of this study indicated that in an older primary care population, the presence of subjective memory complaints was a significant independent predictor for nursing home placement together with other known risk factors. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090824205 A |
| Classmark | EH: L5: LHB:QKH: 49: 3J: 76K |
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