Mortality and institutionalization of patients with dementia treated in primary care: influence of neuropsychiatric symptoms (NeDEM project).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPSs) are common in people with dementia (PWD), but their associations with the risk of institutionalization and mortality are controversial. The objective of this study was to estimate the incidence of institutionalization and death among PWD treated in primary care (PC) and to analyse the associations between NPSs and these events.

Methods

This was a longitudinal analytical observational study of PWD in PC with a 4-year follow-up. Data on sociodemographic, clinical and functional characteristics and prescribed treatments for dementia were collected. NPSs were examined with the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) scale and according to the presence of clinically relevant neuropsychiatric subsyndromes. The incidence of institutionalization

SUBMITTER: Garcia-Martin V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12462034 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature