In our population-based study of older persons, people with dementia used more drugs and had higher overall drug costs than persons without dementia. However, after adjustment for comorbidities and residential setting, dementia was not associated with higher overall drug costs. This reflects the compl...
Thus, we aimed to investigate whether dementia was associated with drug costs in older people. Methods Study population The Swedish National Study on Aging and Care (SNAC) is an ongoing, population based, longitudinal study of aging and health conducted at four different sites in Sweden. We ana...
The study outcome variables concern potential effects of the intervention on the patient and on the caregiver level. In addition, economic outcomes from a societal perspective are registered. The primary endpoint of the study is the remaining time the patient lives at home. This is defined as tim...
Since several formal caregivers tend the same patient over 24 hours in the nursing home, we adapted the RUD lite to this specific situation. We selected a middle course between the recall method used in the RUD lite and the diary method, which is considered the gold standard of time ...
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The patient's ability to carry out hobbies in the home was used as a proxy for their ability to perform usual activities. For the pain/discomfort dimension of the EuroQol instrument, it was assumed that patient assessment of their own health status covered this dimension. Therefore, if they ...
The number of people afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other types of dementing conditions has grown exponentially in the last decades. This review focuses on the diagnostic role of the classic cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers of neurochem
Since several formal caregivers tend the same patient over 24 hours in the nursing home, we adapted the RUD lite to this specific situation. We selected a middle course between the recall method used in the RUD lite and the diary method, which is considered the gold standard of time ...
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