ArticleAge and ageing2017
Inequalities in receipt of mental and physical healthcare in people with dementia in the UK.
Article in Age and ageing, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Access to healthcare services and adherence to treatments for people with dementia among ethnic minority groups: a scoping review.Frontiers in dementia · 2026Pooled it
- Trial
- A policy scoping review of how 'Hospitals at Home' can and could support people with dementia.Age and ageing · 2026Article
- How does diagnostic subtype affect the quality of primary care for people with dementia? A retrospective cohort study in 1490 English general practices.Age and ageing · 2026Article
- Research on dementia and inequalities in care and support - a map of the terrain and discussion of key issues.International journal for equity in health · 2026Review
- Post-diagnostic care pathways in dementia: Experiences and needs of family carers and considerations for interventions.Dementia (London, England) · 2026Article
- A cognitive screening program in community-based medical clinics to facilitate Latino participation in Alzheimer's disease research.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Article
- Characterising inequalities in accessing primary care psychological therapies services for people living with dementia: the example of NHS talking therapies in England.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2025Observational
- Is there inequity in access to health care for geriatric patients from the perspective of operation waiting time?Aging clinical and experimental research · 2025Article
- Sex and gender differences in access, quality of care, and effectiveness of treatment in dementia: a scoping review of studies up to 2024.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2025Article
- Priority setting in dementia palliative care research for people living with dementia and carers: A mixed methods consensus study.Palliative care and social practice · 2025Article
- Development of an individualized dementia risk prediction model using deep learning survival analysis incorporating genetic and environmental factors.Alzheimer's research & therapy · 2024Article
- Inequalities in the Quality and Safety of Post-Diagnostic Primary Care for People With Dementia: A Scoping Review.International journal of geriatric psychiatry · 2024Article
- Article
- Identifying longitudinal healthcare pathways and subsequent mortality for people living with dementia in England: an observational group-based trajectory analysis.BMC geriatrics · 2024Observational
- Digital remote monitoring for screening and early detection of urinary tract infections.NPJ digital medicine · 2024Article
- Korea Nurses' Health Study and the health of reproductive-aged women: a cohort profile.Epidemiology and health · 2024Article
- Dementia: A call for a paradigm shift in pre-registration nurse education.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2024Review
- Understanding the key components of effective dementia education and training.British journal of neuroscience nursing · 2022Article
- The influence of sociodemographic factors and close relatives at hospital discharge and post hospital care of older people with complex care needs: nurses' perceptions on health inequity in three Nordic cities.European journal of ageing · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
- Commented on by
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Background: UK Dementia Strategies prioritise fair access to mental and physical healthcare. We investigated whether there are inequalities by deprivation or gender in healthcare received by people with dementia, and compared healthcare received by people with and without dementia. Methods: we investigated primary care records of 68,061 community dwelling dementia patients and 259,337 people without dementia (2002-13). We tested hypotheses that people with dementia from more deprived areas, and who are women receive more psychotropic medication, fewer surgery consultations, are less likely to receive annual blood pressure, weight monitoring and an annual review, compared with those from less deprived areas and men. Results: only half of people with dementia received a documented annual review. Deprivation was not associated with healthcare received. Compared to men with dementia, women with dementia had lower rates of surgery consultations (adjusted incidence rate ratio (IRR) 0.90, 95% CI 0.90-0.91), of annual blood pressure monitoring (adjusted IRR 0.96, 95% CI 0.95-0.97) and of annual weight monitoring (adjusted IRR 0.91, 95% CI 0.90-0.93). Men with dementia were less likely to be taking psychotropic medication than women with dementia. People with dementia had fewer surgery consultations and were less likely to have their weight and blood pressure monitored at least annually, compared to the non-dementia group. Conclusions: people with dementia, in particular women, appear to receive less primary healthcare, but take more psychotropic medication that may negatively impact their physical health. Reducing these inequalities and improving access of people with dementia to preventative healthcare could improve the health of people with dementia.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.