New or Worsening Symptoms and Signs in Community-Dwelling Persons with Dementia: Incidence and Relation to Use of Acute Medical Services

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 808-814

  Sloane, Philip D ^a   Schifeling, Christopher H ^a   Beeber, Anna S ^a,b   Ward, Kimberly T ^a   Reed, David ^a   Gwyther, Lisa P ^c   Matchar, Bobbi ^c   Zimmerman, Sheryl ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

community dwelling; comorbidity; dementia; symptoms

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONFUSION; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; DEATH; DECUBITUS; DELUSION; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DRINKING; EMERGENCY CARE; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HALLUCINATION; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEG SWELLING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SERVICE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN INJURY; SPEECH DISORDER; SYMPTOM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE INCONTINENCE; VERY ELDERLY; ACUTE DISEASE; CAREGIVER; COMPLICATION; INDEPENDENT LIVING; PATIENT ATTITUDE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; CAREGIVERS; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDEPENDENT LIVING; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 85011710668     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.14672     Document Type: Article

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