Primary care patterns among dual eligibles with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Primary care is essential for persons with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). Prior research suggests that the propensity to provide high-quality, continuous primary care varies by provider setting, but the settings used by Medicare-Medicaid dual-eligibles with ADRD have not been described at the population level.

Methods

Using 2012-2018 Medicare data, we identified dual-eligibles with ADRD. For each person-year, we identified primary care visits occurring in six settings. We calculated descriptive statistics for beneficiaries with a majority of visits in each setting, and conducted a k-means cluster analysis to determine utilization patterns, using the standardized count of primary care visits in each setting.

Results

Each year from 2012 to

SUBMITTER: Potter AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10089966 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature