To identify common long-term care patterns in the 6 years before death among individuals aged ≥65 years with dementia in the Netherlands and to examine how sociodemographic and health factors are associated with these patterns.
Individuals with late-life depression (LLD) may have shorter survival, but there is a lack of findings in population-based settings about health-related outcomes of LLD and its subtypes: early-onset depression (EOD) and late-onset depression (LOD). We aimed to evaluate the risk of all-cause mortality of in...
Traditional cognitive well-being classification in older adults often overlooks domain-specific deficits. We aimed to validate previously identified distinct cognitive profiles among those without dementia and examine demographic predictors to guide tailored interventions for equitable healthy aging.
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Laxatives are among the most prescribed medications to nursing home (NH) patients, and we evaluated the hypothesis that laxative agents could be prescribed as a result of a prescribing cascade. The aims of the study are (1) to investigate the use of laxative drugs in a large sample of Italian NHs and (2) t...