The Effect of a Comprehensive Dementia Care Management Program on End-of-Life Care.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

Although Alzheimer disease and other dementias are life limiting, only a minority of these patients or their proxy decision makers participate in advance care planning. We describe end-of-life care preferences and acute care and hospice use in the last 6 months of life for persons enrolled in a comprehensive dementia care management program.

Design

Observational, retrospective cohort.

Setting

Urban, academic medical center.

Participants

A total of 322 persons enrolled in dementia care management after July 1, 2012, who died before July 1, 2016.

Intervention

Dementia care comanagement model using nurse practitioners partnered with primary care providers and community organizations to provide comprehensive dementia care, including adv

SUBMITTER: Jennings LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9859712 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature