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ReviewEmergency medicine clinics of North America2025

Emergency Care for Persons Living with Dementia.

Scott M Dresden, John C Dickens, Alexander X Lo

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Review in Emergency medicine clinics of North America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Scott M DresdenDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA; Center for Healthcare Services and Outcomes Research, Institute for Public Health and Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA. Electronic address: s-dresden@northwestern.edu.
John C DickensDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
Alexander X LoDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA; Center for Healthcare Services and Outcomes Research, Institute for Public Health and Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.

Funding

Geriatrics Emergency care Applied Research Network 2.1 - AdvanCing and Expanding Dementia care (GEAR 2.1 - ACED)R33AG069822 · NIA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Ula Y Hwang, MANISH N SHAH · 2023 to 2026
$5.3M
Growing the Geriatric Emergency care Applied Research (GEAR 1.1) network: Expanding and sustaining an emergency care aging study infrastructure.R33AG058926 · NIA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Ula Y Hwang, Daniella Meeker · 2020 to 2026
$4.6M
Geriatric Emergency care Applied Research network 2.0 - Advancing Dementia Care (GEAR 2.0 ADC)R61AG069822 · NIA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI HWANG, ULA Y, SHAH, MANISH N · 2020 to 2021
$3.0M
NIA NIH HHS R33 AG058926NIA NIH HHS R33 AG069822NIA NIH HHS R61 AG069822
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Assessments are available which can help to identify emergency department (ED) patients who may have dementia. Persons living with dementia (PLWD) have unique emergency care needs such as difficulties with activities of daily living and behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia. Multiple emergency care practices have shown improved outcomes for PLWD. Communication between clinicians and PLWD requires additional attention and should include care partners and other clinicians when possible. Transitions of care from the ED for PLWD are often problematic with poor outcomes. Interventions like community paramedicine follow up may improve the transition from the ED to the community.

Indexed as

DementiaEmergency Medical ServicesEmergency Service, HospitalActivities of Daily LivingHumansAmyloid-related imaging abnormalitiesCommunicationDementiaEmergency careGeriatricsTransitions of care

Identifiers

PMID40210344
PMCPMC11996066

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