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| One-year risk of institutionalization in demented outpatients with caretaking relatives | | Author(s) | Kati Juva, Matti Mäkelä, Raimo Sulkava |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 9, no 2, June 1997 |
| Pages | pp 175-182 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Living in the community ; Family care ; Mobility ; Self care capacity ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Finland. |
| Annotation | In order to determine the factors associated with good and poor 1-year prognosis of patients with dementia, the caregivers of 100 home-based patients attending a specialist memory clinic were interviewed in this Finnish study. After the follow-up, 71% continued to live at home. Mild dementia, independence in activities of daily living (ADL), fair independence in functions of instrumental activities of daily living (IADL), and lack of depression were clear signs for a good prognosis. Some patients with severe dementia and poor functional capacity continued to live at home. Continuing home care was also more likely if memory impairment, as opposed to functional problems, was expressed as the main concern. The proportion of caregivers mentioning memory decline as the main problem decreased during 1 year from 38% to 9% and the proportion mentioning functional problems increased from 48% to 64% among those continuing living at home. The study concluded that memory disturbances were the first to appear and cause problems, but only functional decline threatened living at home. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980930405 A |
| Classmark | EA: K4: P6:SJ: C4: CA: DB: 76L |
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