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Delayed Nursing Home Placement for Alzheimer’s Patients

Delayed Nursing Home Placement for Alzheimer’s Patients. Nursing-Home Admission of Patients Treated with Alzheimer’s Medicine Compared to Untreated Patients*.

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Delayed Nursing Home Placement for Alzheimer’s Patients

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  1. Delayed Nursing Home Placement for Alzheimer’s Patients Nursing-Home Admission of Patients Treated with Alzheimer’s Medicine Compared to Untreated Patients* Patients taking Cholinesterase Inhibitors were 2.5 times more likely to progress slowly and had a lower risk of nursing-home admission after 2 years, after controlling for multiple factors that can alter the course of the disease Percent of Patients Placed in a Nursing Home *Note: Groups were matched by age, education level, duration of the symptoms before treatment initiation, and baseline Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score. Source: O.L. Lopez et al., “Alteration of a Clinically Meaningful Outcome in the Natural History of Alzheimer’s Disease by Cholinesterase Inhibition,” Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 2005.

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