Predictors of institutionalisation in incident dementia--results of the German Study on Ageing, Cognition and Dementia in Primary Care Patients (AgeCoDe study).

  • Melanie Luppa
  • Steffi G Riedel-Heller
  • Janine Stein
  • Hanna Leicht
  • Hans-Helmut König
  • Hendrik Bussche van den
  • Wolfgang Maier
  • Martin Scherer
  • Horst Bickel
  • Edelgard Mösch
  • Jochen Werle
  • Michael Pentzek
  • Angela Fuchs
  • Marion Eisele
  • Frank Jessen
  • Franziska Tebarth
  • Birgitt Wiese
  • Siegfried Weyerer
  • AgeCoDe Study Group

Abstract

In the past few decades, a number of studies investigated risk factors of nursing home placement (NHP) in dementia patients. The aim of the study was to investigate risk factors of NHP in incident dementia cases, considering characteristics at the time of the dementia diagnosis.

Bibliografische Daten

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer4
ISSN1420-8008
StatusVeröffentlicht - 2012
pubmed 22759566