What is it about?
Many patients are newly diagnosed with dementia after they are hospitalized for heart failure and then go to nursing homes for short-term rehabilitation.
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Why is it important?
Healthcare providers should carefully assess cognition in patients who undergo short-term rehabilitation after heart failure hospitalization.
Perspectives
Dementia makes it more difficult to live with heart failure. Health systems and healthcare providers should take care to identify dementia and other disorders of cognition and then help arrange appropriate services and support.
Thomas Bayer
Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center
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This page is a summary of: Incidence of New Dementia Diagnosis in Veterans Admitted to Nursing Homes After Heart Failure Hospitalization, Journal of Alzheimer s Disease, August 2023, IOS Press,
DOI: 10.3233/jad-221300.
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