ArticleBMC geriatrics2016
Exploring the prevalence and variance of cognitive impairment, pain, neuropsychiatric symptoms and ADL dependency among persons living in nursing homes; a cross-sectional study.
Article in BMC geriatrics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04589637 (Factors Influencing the Deterioration From Cognitive Decline of Normal Aging to Dementia Among Nursing Home Residents), which is not on this map. Cited by 62 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Factors Influencing the Deterioration From Cognitive Decline of Normal Aging to Dementia Among Nursing Home Residents
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62 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 145 citations in OpenAlex.
- Global prevalence of mild cognitive impairment among older adults living in nursing homes: a meta-analysis and systematic review of epidemiological surveys.Translational psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
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- Sleep and neurocognitive function in the geriatric population: a cross-sectional comparison between nursing-home and community-dwelling older adults.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2025Article
- Neuropathic Pain in Nursing Homes.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2025Article
- Health and Quality of Life in Nursing Homes: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study on the Impact of Leadership and Person-Centred Care.Nursing open · 2025Article
- Proactive end-of-life conversations in residential care homes: a qualitative interview study exploring residents' and family members' experiences.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- True inner self or fantasies and fabulation? Discourses on gender identity, sexuality, and LGBTQ among care workers in Swedish dementia care.Dementia (London, England) · 2025Article
- Neuropsychiatric Symptom Profile in Alzheimer's Disease and Their Relationship With Functional Decline.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2024Article
- Health care utilization at the end of life in Parkinson's disease: a population-based register study.BMC palliative care · 2024Article
- Life story templates in dementia care: Ambiguous direction and purpose.Dementia (London, England) · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundEarlier studies in nursing homes show a high prevalence of cognitive impairment, dependency in activities of daily living (ADL), pain, and neuropsychiatric symptoms among residents. The aim of this study was to explore the prevalence of the above among residents in a nationally representative sample of Swedish nursing homes, and to investigate whether pain and neuropsychiatric symptoms differ in relation to gender, cognitive function, ADL-capacity, type of nursing-home unit and length of stay.
methodsCross-sectional data from 188 randomly selected nursing homes were collected. A total of 4831 residents were assessed for cognitive and ADL function, pain and neuropsychiatric symptoms. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and the chi-square test.
resultsThe results show the following: the prevalence of cognitive impairment was 67 %, 56 % of residents were ADL-dependent, 48 % exhibited pain and 92 % exhibited neuropsychiatric symptoms. The prevalence of pain did not differ significantly between male and female residents, but pain was more prevalent among cognitively impaired and ADL-dependent residents. Pain prevalence was not significantly different between residents in special care units for people with dementia (SCU) and general units, or between shorter-and longer-stay residents. Furthermore, the prevalence of neuropsychiatric symptoms did not differ significantly between male and female residents, between ADL capacities or in relation to length of stay. However, residents with cognitive impairment and residents in SCUs had a significantly higher prevalence of neuropsychiatric symptoms than residents without cognitive impairment and residents in general units.
conclusionsThe prevalence rates ascertained in this study could contribute to a greater understanding of the needs of nursing-home residents, and may provide nursing home staff and managers with trustworthy assessment scales and benchmark values for further quality assessment purposes, clinical development work and initiating future nursing assessments.
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