Prevalence of dementia in nursing home and community-dwelling older adults in Germany

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Prevalence of dementia in nursing home and community-dwelling older adults in Germany. / Hoffmann, Falk; Kaduszkiewicz, Hanna; Glaeske, Gerd; van den Bussche, Hendrik; Koller, Daniela.

in: AGING CLIN EXP RES, 20.03.2014.

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title = "Prevalence of dementia in nursing home and community-dwelling older adults in Germany",
abstract = "BACKGROUND/AIM: We compared the prevalence of dementia in nursing home residents and community-dwelling older adults .METHODS: Using health insurance claims data for the year 2009, we estimated the prevalence of at least three of four quarters with a diagnosis of dementia in persons aged ≥65 years.RESULTS: Of 213,694 persons aged 65+ years, 4,584 (2.2 %) lived in nursing homes. The prevalence of dementia was 51.8 % (95 % CI 50.4-53.3) in nursing home residents and 2.7 % (95 % CI 2.6-2.8) in community-dwelling elderly. Increasing prevalences with age were found in both sexes in community-dwelling elderly. These trends were not seen in nursing home residents where prevalences were already high for the age group 65-69 years (35.7 % in males and 40.9 % in females, respectively).CONCLUSIONS: More than half of nursing home residents suffer from dementia, which is about 19-fold higher than the prevalence in insured living in the community.",
author = "Falk Hoffmann and Hanna Kaduszkiewicz and Gerd Glaeske and {van den Bussche}, Hendrik and Daniela Koller",
year = "2014",
month = mar,
day = "20",
doi = "10.1007/s40520-014-0210-6",
language = "English",
journal = "AGING CLIN EXP RES",
issn = "1594-0667",
publisher = "Springer",

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T1 - Prevalence of dementia in nursing home and community-dwelling older adults in Germany

AU - Hoffmann, Falk

AU - Kaduszkiewicz, Hanna

AU - Glaeske, Gerd

AU - van den Bussche, Hendrik

AU - Koller, Daniela

PY - 2014/3/20

Y1 - 2014/3/20

N2 - BACKGROUND/AIM: We compared the prevalence of dementia in nursing home residents and community-dwelling older adults .METHODS: Using health insurance claims data for the year 2009, we estimated the prevalence of at least three of four quarters with a diagnosis of dementia in persons aged ≥65 years.RESULTS: Of 213,694 persons aged 65+ years, 4,584 (2.2 %) lived in nursing homes. The prevalence of dementia was 51.8 % (95 % CI 50.4-53.3) in nursing home residents and 2.7 % (95 % CI 2.6-2.8) in community-dwelling elderly. Increasing prevalences with age were found in both sexes in community-dwelling elderly. These trends were not seen in nursing home residents where prevalences were already high for the age group 65-69 years (35.7 % in males and 40.9 % in females, respectively).CONCLUSIONS: More than half of nursing home residents suffer from dementia, which is about 19-fold higher than the prevalence in insured living in the community.

AB - BACKGROUND/AIM: We compared the prevalence of dementia in nursing home residents and community-dwelling older adults .METHODS: Using health insurance claims data for the year 2009, we estimated the prevalence of at least three of four quarters with a diagnosis of dementia in persons aged ≥65 years.RESULTS: Of 213,694 persons aged 65+ years, 4,584 (2.2 %) lived in nursing homes. The prevalence of dementia was 51.8 % (95 % CI 50.4-53.3) in nursing home residents and 2.7 % (95 % CI 2.6-2.8) in community-dwelling elderly. Increasing prevalences with age were found in both sexes in community-dwelling elderly. These trends were not seen in nursing home residents where prevalences were already high for the age group 65-69 years (35.7 % in males and 40.9 % in females, respectively).CONCLUSIONS: More than half of nursing home residents suffer from dementia, which is about 19-fold higher than the prevalence in insured living in the community.

U2 - 10.1007/s40520-014-0210-6

DO - 10.1007/s40520-014-0210-6

M3 - SCORING: Journal article

C2 - 24647931

JO - AGING CLIN EXP RES

JF - AGING CLIN EXP RES

SN - 1594-0667

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