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The Impact of Dementia and Language on Hospitalizations. A Retrospective Cohort of Long-Term Care Residents.

2020-10-07

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background: Hospitalizations carry considerable risks for frail, elderly patients; this is especially true for patients with dementia, who are more likely to experience delirium, falls, functional decline, iatrogenic complications, and infections when compared to their peers without dementia. Since up to two thirds of patients in long-term care (LTC) facilities have dementia, there is i...

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Literature Corpus work: 6363a419-c969-5688-8826-dbd8482bef18
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-36078/v3

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