The final year for community-dwelling older adults with dementia in an Asian setting: admissions, interventions, and caregiver burden
Community-dwelling older adults in Singapore experienced similar clinical problems and potentially more burdensome interventions, including feeding tubes and physical restraints, than described previously in other contexts, highlighting the need for a palliative approach not apparent in the frequent acute care utilization, interventions, and caregiving burden observed.
Authors
- Chetna Malhotra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5380-0525)
Institutions
- Duke-NUS Medical School (SG)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Journals of Gerontology Series A
- Published
- 2025-11-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glaf227
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 5.64