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| The impact of dementia on care transitions during the last two years of life | | Author(s) | Mari Aaltonen, Pekka Rissanen, Leena Forma |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 41, no 1, January 2012 |
| Pages | pp 52-57 |
| Source | http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/ http://www.bgs.org.uk/ |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Admission [care homes] ; Discharge [care homes] ; Dying ; Quality of life ; Finland. |
| Annotation | This study aimed to compare the number and timing of transitions between care settings in the last two years of life among older people with and without dementia. Data were derived from Finnish national registers, and included all those who died in 2002 and 2003 at the age of 70 or older. Negative binomial regression analyses were used to analyse the impact of dementia on the number of transitions among people with and without dementia and to adjust the number for age, gender and other diagnoses. In the group that lived at home two years before death people with a dementia diagnosis had 32% more care transitions than people without dementia, while the group that was in a residential care facility two years before death had 12% fewer moves than those without dementia. The average number of transitions was highest in the last three months of life. People with dementia had their last move more often between care facilities and hospitals offering basic health care than people without dementia. These findings show that dementia has a significant impact on the number and type of transitions. As the number of people with dementia increases, the quality and equity of care of these patients in their last years constitute a special challenge. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-120503006 A |
| Classmark | EA: KW:QKH: KW:QKJ: CX: F:59: 76L |
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