Dementia-focused programs in older adult centers and health care use among individuals with dementia.

ABSTRACT: There is growing attention to community-based services for preventing adverse health care outcomes among people aging with dementia. We explored whether the availability of dementia-centered programming within older adult centers (ie, senior centers)-specifically, adult day services (ADS), social adult day centers (SADCs), memory cafes, and caregiver support-is associated with reduced hospitalization, emergency room use, and total Medicare costs for community-dwelling individuals ages 75 and older with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), and whether associations differ by the relative size of the local jurisdiction. We used a novel dataset that links Medicare claims data with data from an organizational census of municipally based Massachusetts older adult centers. Living in

SUBMITTER: Akincigil A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11416040 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature