Mortality Rates and Mortality Risk Factors in Older Adults with Dementia from Low- and Middle-Income Countries: The 10/66 Dementia Research Group Population-Based Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dementia is the main cause of disability in older people living in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Monitoring mortality rates and mortality risk factors in people with dementia (PwD) may contribute to improving care provision.

Objective

We aimed to estimate mortality rates and mortality predictors in PwD from eight LMICs.

Methods

This 3-5-year prospective cohort study involved a sample of 1,488 older people with dementia from eight LMIC. Total, age- and gender-specific mortality rates per 1,000 person-years at risk, as well as the total, age- and gender-adjusted mortality rates were estimated for each country's sub-sample. Cox's regressions were used to establish the predictors of mortality.

Results

At follow-up, vital status of 1,304 indivi

SUBMITTER: Piovezan RD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7306886 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature