ArticleJournal of palliative care2023
Dementia Care in the Last Year of Life: Experiences in a Community Practice and in Skilled Nursing Facilities.
Article in Journal of palliative care, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.
- What Do We Know About Hospice Enrollment for Nursing Home Residents with Cognitive Disabilities? A Systematic Review.Journal of palliative medicine · 2026Pooled it
- The final year for community-dwelling older adults with dementia in an Asian setting: admissions, interventions, and caregiver burden.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2025Article
- Physical Activity and Acute Care Utilization Among Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2025Article
- End-of-life emergency department use and healthcare expenditures among older adults: A nationally representative study.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025Article
- Patterns of national emergency department utilization by fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries with dementia.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectivePeople living with dementia often have high care needs at the end-of-life. We compared care delivery in the last year of life for people living with dementia in the community (home or assisted living facilities [ALFs]) versus those in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs).
methodsA retrospective study was performed of older adults with a dementia diagnosis who died in the community or SNFs from 2013 through 2018. Primary outcomes were numbers of hospitalizations and emergency department visits in the last year of life. Secondary outcomes were completed advance care plans, hospice enrollment, time in hospice, practitioner visits, and intensive care unit admissions.
resultsOf 1203 older adults with dementia, 622 (51.7%) lived at home/ALFs; 581 (48.3%) lived in SNFs. At least 1 hospitalization was recorded for 70.7% living at home/ALFs versus 50.8% in SNFs (
conclusionsOlder adults with dementia frequently receive acute care in their last year of life. Hospice care was more common for home/ALF residents. Time in hospice was short.
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