Development and External Validation of a Mortality Prediction Model for Community-Dwelling Older Adults With Dementia.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Estimating mortality risk in older adults with dementia is important for guiding decisions such as cancer screening, treatment of new and chronic medical conditions, and advance care planning.

Objective

To develop and externally validate a mortality prediction model in community-dwelling older adults with dementia.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study included community-dwelling participants (aged ≥65 years) in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) from 1998 to 2016 (derivation cohort) and National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) from 2011 to 2019 (validation cohort).

Exposures

Candidate predictors included demographics, behavioral/health factors, functional measures (eg, activities of daily living [ADL] and instrumental activiti

SUBMITTER: Deardorff WJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9513707 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature