Trends in Health Service Use for Canadian Adults With Dementia and Parkinson Disease During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Persons with dementia and Parkinson disease (PD) are vulnerable to disruptions in health care and services.

Objective

To examine changes in health service use among community-dwelling persons with dementia, persons with PD, and older adults without neurodegenerative disease during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design setting and participants

Repeated cross-sectional analysis using population-based administrative data among community-dwelling persons with dementia, persons with PD, and adults 65 years and older at the start of each week from March 1 through the week of September 20, 2020 (pandemic period), and March 3 through the week of September 22, 2019 (historical period), in Ontario, Canada.

Exposures

COVID-19 pandemic as of March 1, 2

SUBMITTER: Bronskill SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8903126 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature