Home or Nursing Home: Does Place of Residence Affect Longevity in Patients With Alzheimer's Disease? The Experience of CERAD Patients

ABSTRACT There is concern that life is curtailed when patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) are institutionalized. To determine whether placement in a nursing home reduces their remaining years of life, we examined the experience of White patients with AD (n=890) enrolled in the Consortium to...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Public health Nursing 2008-09, Vol.25 (5), p.490-497
Hauptverfasser:	Peterson, Bercedis L., Fillenbaum, Gerda G., Pieper, Carl F., Heyman, Albert
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult and adolescent clinical studies Aged Aged, 80 and over Algorithms Alzheimer Disease - ethnology Alzheimer Disease - mortality Alzheimer Disease - physiopathology Alzheimer's disease Biological and medical sciences Degenerative and inherited degenerative diseases of the nervous system. Leukodystrophies. Prion diseases European Continental Ancestry Group - psychology European Continental Ancestry Group - statistics & numerical data Female home Home Care Services - utilization Humans Institutionalization landmark analysis Longevity Male Medical sciences Mental Processes - physiology Middle Aged Miscellaneous Neurology Nurses Nursing nursing home Nursing homes Nursing Homes - utilization Organic mental disorders. Neuropsychology Proportional Hazards Models Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Public health. Hygiene Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine Survival Analysis Time Factors United States - epidemiology White people
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