Incident Care Trajectories for Older Adults With and Without Dementia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Despite cross-sectional evidence that persons living with dementia receive disproportionate hours of care, studies of how care intensity progresses over time and differs for those living with and without dementia have been lacking.

Method

We used the 2011-2018 National Health and Aging Trends Study to estimate growth mixture models to identify incident care hour trajectories ("classes") among older adults (N = 1,780).

Results

We identified 4 incident care hour classes: "Low, stable," "High, increasing," "24/7 then high, stable," and "Low then resolved." The high-intensity classes had the highest proportions of care recipients with dementia and accounted for nearly half of that group. Older adults with dementia were 3-4 times as likely as other older adults t

SUBMITTER: Freedman VA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9122642 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature