Nursing home admission for African Americans with Alzheimer's disease

BACKGROUND: For African Americans with Alzheimer's disease (AD), little is known about the time to, and risk factors for, nursing home admission (NHA). Using Consortium To Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD) data, this study provides information on NHA for African American...

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Published in:The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences Psychological sciences and social sciences, 1999-07, Vol.54B (4), p.M365
Main Authors: Miller, S C, Prohaska, T R, Furner SE
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Language:English
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Summary:BACKGROUND: For African Americans with Alzheimer's disease (AD), little is known about the time to, and risk factors for, nursing home admission (NHA). Using Consortium To Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD) data, this study provides information on NHA for African Americans. METHODS: This longitudinal study followed subjects (N=122) for as long as 7 years and used survival analysis methodology and variable values at baseline and at follow-up to identify NHA risk factors. Studied were sociodemographic variables, physical symptom and disease status variables, the Blessed Dementia Rating Scale (including subscores), the Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR), and the Mini-Mental State Examination. RESULTS: Only 25% of African Americans with AD were estimated to have had a NHA by 3.4 years (confidence interval 2.1, 5.4). Being unmarried resulted in a five times earlier NHA (p< .01), and each unit increase in the CDR resulted in a 74% earlier NHA (p
ISSN:1079-5014
1758-5368