Acute care needs of patients with dementia increased due to caregiver depression. Caregiver depression, if addressed, could improve health care outcomes and reduce costs among the high-risk population with dementia.
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‘Emergency department use and further hospitalization increase among individuals with dementia due to caregiver depression. If the depression is taken care of, it results in reduced costs and increased health care outcomes.’
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A total of 84 caregivers had depression at the study start and it was associated with an increase in rates of emergency department use by patients after accounting for a number of other potential mitigating factors including patient age and the severity of dementia. Read More..
There were 196 patients with dementia who had at least one emergency department visit in the first six months of the study. Caregiver depression was associated with an additional 0.7 emergency department visits per person-year for patients compared to caregivers without depression (1.5 vs. 0.8 visits) on an absolute scale.
Limitations of the study to consider include selection bias because those caregivers with higher depression may have declined to participate.
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