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Mortality in Alzheimer's disease
— a comparative prospective Korean study in community and nursing home | | Author(s) | Guk-Hee Suh, Byeong Kil Yeon, Ajit Shah |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 20, no 1, January 2005 |
| Pages | pp 26-34 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Death rate [statistics] ; Living in the community ; Nursing homes ; Comparison ; Korea. |
| Annotation | A study of 252 Koreans (107 in the community, 145 in nursing homes) were assessed at baseline, 6 and 12 months, to test a hypothesis that Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients in nursing homes have higher mortality rates than those cared for at home. The overall 1-year mortality rate was 18.7%, but there was no statistically significant difference in AD mortality between those cared for at home or in a nursing home. However, the study did find that presence of tactile hallucination to be a strong predictor of mortality in AD. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050127510 A |
| Classmark | EA: S5: K4: LHB: 48: 7DK |
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