Miharu Nakanishi, Syudo Yamasaki, Taeko Nakashima, Yuki Miyamoto, Claudia Cooper, Marcus Richards, Daniel Stanyon, Mai Sakai, Hatsumi Yoshii, Atsushi Nishida
BACKGROUND: The emotional impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on people with dementia has been quantified. However, little is known about the impact of change in home-care use owing to the pandemic. OBJECTIVE: To determine the longitudinal association between dementia, change in home-care use, and depressive symptoms during the pandemic. METHODS: We included data of 43,782 home-dwelling older adults from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), Study of health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), and National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS)...
April 17, 2024: Journal of Alzheimer's Disease: JAD