Mult Scler 2001 Jun;7(3):189-200
Buchanan RJ, Wang S, Huang C, Graber
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Department of Health Policy and
Management, School of Rural Public Health, The Texas A&M University
System Health Science Center, College Station 77843-1266, USA.
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This paper profiles nursing home
residents with multiple sclerosis (MS) at the time of admission, including
sociodemographic characteristics, health status measures, and treatments
received.
Admission assessments from the Minimum
Data Set are used to create these profiles of residents with MS.
There are 9,013 admission assessments
in the MDS for residents with MS between June 22, 1998 and January 17,
2000 analyzed for this study. Residents with MS are distinctly younger
at admission than most nursing home residents, averaging 57.98 years of
age.
Recently admitted residents with
MS are more physically dependent than other nursing home residents and
tend to have limited range of motion and loss of voluntary movement.
About one in three newly admitted
residents with MS had some degree of impaired cognitive function.
Over one third of residents with
MS were depressed at admission, yet only 11.7% of recently admitted residents
with MS were evaluated by a licensed mental health specialist.
This prompts concem about the psychosocial
well-being of MS residents in nursing homes.
CA-57030/CA/NCI
PMID: 11475444, UI: 21366602