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JOURNAL OF GERONTOLOGICAL NURSING
Volume 36, Issue 1, Pages 18-30Publisher
SLACK INC
DOI: 10.3928/00989134-20091204-01
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- NINR NIH HHS [P30 NR003979-15, F33 NR009156, F33NR009156, P30 NR03979, P30 NR003979] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NURSING RESEARCH [P30NR003979, F33NR009156] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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With the rapid growth of the assisted living (AL) industry, the number of AL residences providing dementia care continues to increase. The purpose of this article is to describe and compare demographic characteristics; frequency and type of psychiatric diagnoses; level of cognition, depression, and anxiety symptoms; and use of psychotropic medication among older adults in dementia-specific assisted living (DSAL) and traditional assisted living (TAL) residences. Secondary analysis of screening data collected during a cross-sectional, descriptive pilot project compared 18 participants from two DSAL facilities and 28 participants from three TAL facilities. DSAL participants with dementia were more cognitively impaired than TAL participants with dementia (p < 0.001) and used more antipsychotic (67%), anxiolytic (60%), antidepressant (53%), and cognitive-enhancing (87%) medications. No statistically significant differences in demographic factors or levels of anxiety or depression were observed among residents in either setting.
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