Use of the patient portal among older adults with diagnosed dementia and their care partners.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Care partners are at the forefront of dementia care, yet little is known about patient portal use in the context of dementia diagnosis.

Methods

We conducted an observational cohort study of date/time-stamped patient portal use for a 5-year period (October 3, 2017-October 2, 2022) at an academic health system. The cohort consisted of 3170 patients ages 65+ with diagnosed dementia with 2+ visits within 24 months. Message authorship was determined by manual review of 970 threads involving 3065 messages for 279 patients.

Results

Most (71.20%) older adults with diagnosed dementia were registered portal users but far fewer (10.41%) had a registered care partner with shared access. Care partners authored most (612/970, 63.09%) message threads, overwhelmingly usi

SUBMITTER: Gleason KT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10808947 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature